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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 05 Sep 2016

Documentary filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig turns a controversial literary hoax that fooled the world (and many a celebrity) into a tale of a private…

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By Randall Colburn (93) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 05 Sep 2016

Author posits the JT LeRoy situation as much more than a mere curiosity, instead portraying it as an important shift in the way pop culture…

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By Mike Mcgranaghan (1,821) for Aisle Seat (1,783) on 04 Sep 2016

A mind-blowing document of creation and deception. Every second of the film leaves you captivated…

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By Matt Brennan (26) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Sep 2016

Jeff Feuerzeig isn't skeptical enough of Laura Albert's explanations and rationalizations…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 06 Aug 2016

Fascinating viewing, offering a more sensitive counterpoint to the efforts of various news organisations to brand what she did an elaborate…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 06 Aug 2016

A fascinating, if skewed, account of creativity gone wild…

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By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 31 Jul 2016

Ms Albert emerges as a quicksilver talent whose obfuscations enraged many, but harmed absolutely no one…

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By Leslie Felperin (768) for Radio Times (2,421) on 30 Jul 2016

Animations, interviews and recordings of phone calls made at the time between Laura/JT and the various celebrities and literary figures she/he…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 30 Jul 2016

This does become a fascinating tale; after all, who doesn't love to hear about celebrities being taken for a ride…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 30 Jul 2016

The levels of deception, delusion and denial were exhausting but they make for a spellbinding documentary…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 30 Jul 2016

While it gives a fascinating insight into her near pathological compulsion to try on other voices and identities, it does leave a lot of questions…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 30 Jul 2016

If ever there were a documentary that could get away with an unreliable narrator then this is it…

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By Kevin Maher (647) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 28 Jul 2016

Deeply dubious -- possibly specious -- this documentary is nonetheless car-crash compelling…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 28 Jul 2016

[An] intriguing if sometimes exasperating documentary…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 28 Jul 2016

The documentary doesn't draw any particular conclusion about Albert's behaviour but it is a fascinating account of a case that still confounds…

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By Deborah Ross (530) for The Spectator (1,162) on 27 Jul 2016

To describe this story as multilayered doesn't do it justice…

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By Aine O'connor (240) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 24 Jul 2016

The film is fascinating but needed more voices…

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By Hannah Mcgill (136) for The List (2,018) on 24 Jul 2016

Intriguing as it is, the film could have done with more voices and facets and less of what one woman's learned about herself in therapy…

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By Matt Glasby (349) for Total Film (3,532) on 24 Jul 2016

The result is so far-fetchedly entertaining it feels like a fantasist’s fevered imaginings. Which, in a way, it is…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 21 Jul 2016

Director Jeff Feuerzeig tracks Albert’s bizarre scheme in her own words, constructing a fascinating treatise on creative desire, internal…

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