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By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Sep 2018

Feeling stilted and steeped in uninspired biopic tropes, Kelly’s film never comes close to an inventiveness worthy of JT’s imaginative,…

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By Scott Menzel (120) for We Live Entertainment (357) on 14 Sep 2018

Kristen Stewart as JT LeRoy is the very definition of perfect casting. This is a role that Stewart was born to play…

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By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 13 Sep 2018

The story of JT LeRoy, the best-selling author who never really existed, gets the standard biopic treatment in Justin Kelly's unfortunately…

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By Sarah Gopaul (223) for Digital Journal (223) on 12 Sep 2018

ignites this stimulating exploration of identity and what constitutes a real person versus a figment of one's imagination…

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By Christopher Schobert (126) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 11 Sep 2018

Jeremiah is bouncy and pleasing, if overfamiliar and never as insightful as one would hope…

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By Charles Bramesco (223) for The Guardian (2,969) on 11 Sep 2018

JT LeRoy may have been an elaborate fib, but Kelly finds a genuine pearl of wisdom in the web of deception…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 11 Sep 2018

There’s nothing about this watchable but somewhat workmanlike dramatisation of the literary fraud behind author ‘JT LeRoy’ which is anywhere…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Sep 2018

For a movie about what’s going on under the elaborately staged surface, it’s pretty much all surface, right down to its shallow observations…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 10 Sep 2018

While Kelly’s faithful dramatization doesn’t offer a lot of fresh insights, and fizzles by the end, it remains an involving snapshot of…

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