Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
positive
16(47%)
mixed
17(50%)
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100
Jim Carrey's performance is an impersonation on the level of genius.
100
Less a biography than an essay on theatrical illusion and the changing nature of comedy. Love it or hate it, you've never seen anything quite like it.
100
Actually moves, whisking the audience on a funny, sad and extraordinary journey through a singularly compelling moment in American pop culture.
100
Less a conventional biography than a performance film - one that stuns and delights.
88
What is most wonderful about Man on the Moon, a very good film, is that it remains true to Kaufman's stubborn vision.
80
Just gives us Andy, the pop postmodernist, and permits us to make what we will of him, which is a fascinating activity.
80
This Andy has "Oscar" written all over it.
75
A movie of moments whose ultimate legacy may be to get Carrey out of formula comedies forever.
75
Carrey gives an otherworldly, possessed performance as Kaufman.
75
A fascinating, sometimes profound curiosity.
