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Jim Carrey has 40 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Truman Show.
Class Act
1992
Comedy · Drama

The Truman Show
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

Sonic the Hedgehog 3
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Prime Video · Included

Sonic the Hedgehog
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Paramount+ · Included

Sonic the Hedgehog 2
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Netflix · Included

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%Netflix · Included

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994 · Movie · Actor · Writer
Top 38%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.
Dir. Peter Weir · With Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
Dir. Michel Gondry · With Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst

Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.
Dir. Jeff Fowler · With Ben Schwartz, Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves

Powered with incredible speed, Sonic The Hedgehog embraces his new home on Earth. That is, until Sonic sparks the attention of super-uncool evil genius Dr. Robotnik. Now it’s super-villain vs. super-sonic in an all-out race across the globe to stop Robotnik from using Sonic’s unique power for world domination.
Dir. Jeff Fowler · With Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Tika Sumpter

After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove he has what it takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik returns, this time with a new partner, Knuckles, in search for an emerald that has the power to destroy civilizations. Sonic teams up with his own sidekick, Tails, and together they embark on a globe-trotting journey to find the emerald before it falls into the wrong hands.
Dir. Jeff Fowler · With Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Tika Sumpter

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
Dir. Miloš Forman · With Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love

Timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers a magical mask infused with the spirit of the Norse god Loki. Donning it transforms him into an unrestrained, green-faced, cartoon-like wild man. While the mask grants him the confidence to woo a local singer, it also makes him the target of a ruthless mobster.
Dir. Chuck Russell · With Jim Carrey, Peter Riegert, Peter Greene

as Count Olaf / Dr. Stephano / Captain Sham
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
Dir. Brad Silberling · With Emily Browning, Liam Aiken, Kara Hoffman

Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon.
Dir. Chris Smith · With Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Miloš Forman

Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God — and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.
Dir. Tom Shadyac · With Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston

Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.
Dir. Tom Shadyac · With Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper

Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her lips sealed no matter how much he protests. Simon, meanwhile, is an 11-year-old dwarf whose outsize personality belies his small stature. Indeed, he often assails the local reverend with thorny theological questions and joins Joe on his quest to find his biological father.
Dir. Mark Steven Johnson · With Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd

Carl Allen, a guy whose life is going nowhere, signs up for a self-help program based on one simple covenant: say yes to everything…and anything.
Dir. Peyton Reed · With Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper

Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some "adventures" they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight for Mary's heart.
Dir. Peter Farrelly · With Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly

Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more friendly and laid back. Both of these personalities fall in love with the same woman named Irene after Charlie loses his medication.
Dir. Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly · With Jim Carrey, Renée Zellweger, Anthony Anderson

The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...
Dir. Ron Howard · With Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor

Created by stars Keenen Ivory Wayans and Damon Wayans, this Emmy-winning sketch series offers cutting-edge satire and features a host of talent, including Jamie Foxx, Jim Carrey, David Alan Grier and Tommy Davidson.
Dir. Damon Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans · With Jim Carrey, Tommy Davidson, David Alan Grier

He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!
Dir. Tom Shadyac · With Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young

Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
Dir. Joel Schumacher · With Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman

Jeff, aka Mr. Pickles, is an icon of children's TV. But when his family begins to implode, Jeff finds no fairy tale or fable or puppet will guide him through this crisis, which advances faster than his means to cope. The result: a kind man in a cruel world faces a slow leak of sanity as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.
Dir. Dave Holstein · With Jim Carrey, Frank Langella, Judy Greer

After Kick-Ass’ insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, he joins a patrol led by the Colonel Stars and Stripes. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist — reborn as The Mother Fucker — only the blade-wielding Hit-Girl can prevent their annihilation.
Dir. Jeff Wadlow · With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force. That is until he has a severe car accident that leads him to the ultimate epiphany: he’s gay and he’s going to live life to the fullest – even if he has to break the law to do it. Taking on an extravagant lifestyle, Steven turns to cons and fraud to make ends meet and is eventually sent to the State Penitentiary where he meets the love of his life, a sensitive, soft-spoken man named Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts him to attempt (and often succeed at) one impossible con after another.
Dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa · With Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann

Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of prominent figures. By the time Harry learns that the murders are part of a sick game to predict such deaths, it may be too late.
Dir. Buddy Van Horn · With Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Dir. Frank Darabont · With Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Laurie Holden

After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it -- but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.
Dir. Dean Parisot · With Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin

At her 25th high school reunion, Peggy Sue faints and awakens in 1960—back in her senior year, before her marriage and all her regrets. Given a second chance to relive her youth, she must decide whether to change the choices that shaped her life or embrace the past that made her who she is.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth

When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the 'friendship', Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behaviour.
Dir. Ben Stiller · With Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann

Tom Popper is a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things in life...until he inherits six “adorable” penguins, each with its own unique personality. Soon Tom’s rambunctious roommates turn his swank New York apartment into a snowy winter wonderland — and the rest of his world upside-down.
Dir. Mark Waters · With Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury
Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of them, a 400-year-old vampire Countess needs to turn a virgin into a vampire before Halloween in order to preserve her own youthful appearance, and when she finds Mark, she turns his life upside-down.
Dir. Howard Storm · With Jim Carrey, Lauren Hutton, Karen Kopins
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