80
One of the funniest films of the year, this is a wonderful mix of old-school Carrey outrageousness with a genuinely touching - and very modern - love story.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
San Francisco Chronicle by Amy Biancolli
A tonally confused, fitfully entertaining film about a pathologically two-faced man.
80
Carrey provides one of his most whacked-out and enjoyable performances.
60
The New Yorker by Anthony Lane
At best, I Love You Phillip Morris may be hailed as a necessary step in Hollywood's fearful crawl toward sexual evenhandedness; the film upholds the constitutional right of every gay man to be as much of a liar, a crook, and a creep as the rest of us. Makes you proud.
80
"Liar Liar" meets Obi-Wan? Who'da thunk even fearless star power could make these two work as a romantic pair? But both stars prove to be enormous fun in a gay love story played straight in a thoroughly crooked context.
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New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
I Love You Phillip Morris not only blasts gay stereotypes back decades, it could actually make people wish for a third "Ace Ventura" movie. Both of those are an accomplishment, though neither is a compliment.
91
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
It's the beaming movie-star intensity of the complicated comic Carrey in the role of the dominant lover and Obi-Wan Kenobi McGregor as the gentle beloved that makes this unfettered, stranger-than-fiction picture pop.
75
It's a welcome alternative to the homogenized Hollywood releases that proliferate during the holiday season.
58
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
The movie, at its best, is compellingly odd, which is also the most accurate description of Carrey's performance.
75
Movieline by Stephanie Zacharek
This is a love story in which one of the partners repeatedly does some really bad stuff, and while it's easy enough to admire him for his ability to get away with it all, it's harder to square the way he so cheerfully dupes innocent people, including his beloved.