Casting JonBenet

  • 2017


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Positive Reviews 34
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Average Rating 3.7/5
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2.0
The film ends on a strangely moving theatrical exercise, as the various performers gather together on a soundstage recreation of the Ramsey home to dr .. Av Club
2.0
Alas, here we are two decades later, still enthralled by a media circus that refuses to leave town. EW
3.8
Seeing this tale recreated and analyzed over and over again almost allows us to deal with our own nightmares. Rogerebert
1.0
Its difficult to see the point of this wandering exercise in exploitation. Common Sense Media
4.5
Sharing some DNA with 2016s Kate Plays Christine another inventive documentary about an infamous death that relies on contemporary performances the mo .. Indie Wire
2.0
Rather than imposing a specific explanation on these murky events, Casting JonBenet excels at lingering in the mystery. Indie Wire
3.5
On closer analysis, there is something truly inspired about asking actors to do the speculating. Variety
5.0
That notion, usually so essential to documentary filmmaking, is surprisingly detachable. Time Out
5.0
It is a documentary that seems to have an audacious set piece every five minutes.It places the parental couples in ever more strange situations, but t .. The Guardian
4.5
Green (Ukraine Is Not A Brothel) doesnt offer title cards or voiceover to explain her films nervy premise. Screen Daily
4.5
Casting JonBenet would seem more suited to adventurous viewers, who will be richly rewarded. Screen Daily
4.0
It may be about a murder that occurred more than 20 years ago, but on another level its a film that feels very much a product of these troubled, post .. The Hollywood Reporter
1.0
That kind of filmmaking reserve or perhaps simply coyness is a stale tactic, one that too often gestures at nonexistent complexity. The New York Times
4.5
Lots and lots of fireworks.More a sensory experience than a structured portrait, Brimstone & Glory contains more primal, enrapturing images than any d .. Paste Magazine
2.0
Called a documentary but really a glossy piece of gossipy, offensive kitsch, it presents for your snickering fix a range of citizens from Boulder oste ..
2.0
This could have been a 60 minute short film and would have felt tighter. The Young Folks
4.5
And it is stunningly revealing.It does not attempt to solve the case. The Globe And Mail
4.0
Thats a grab bag of ideas, but Greens doc like the case at its center defies resolution or easy answers. Village Voice
3.5
This doesnt necessarily make it bad; the film is just a surprising one.Kitty Greens strange Netflix original documentary plays more like an experiment .. Decider
4.5
That makes it a fascinating and perplexing piece of storytelling. The Wrap
4.5
Empathy is a much better look than condemnation.One of the frequent talking points of the Ramsey case was how Boulder is a quiet community without a h .. Film Inquiry
4.0
The essence of the modern documentary is epistemological: How do the participantsand, for that matter, the filmmakerknow what they know about the subj .. New Yorker
2.0
Certainly, it feels far more effective than any amount of ultimately futile musing. The Film Stage
4.5
This confessional device draws some fascinating digressions from its subjects, while filtering their words through the prism of a national tragedy eve .. The Atlantic
4.5
Casting JonBenet is shocking and attention grabbing, but it is never exploitative.Beyond its showy device, or maybe because of it, this is a deeply th .. Birth Movies Death
4.0
This isnt really a documentary about the Ramsays; its about these regular people with their theories and research, and they are all of us. Ner Dist
4.0
Movies The New Venom Trailer Teaches Us What That Tongue Does Tom Hardys Venom is the latest monster to become an internet paramour he and his long, s .. Refinery 29
2.0
But once you get past the initial confusion, Casting JonBenet becomes way more interesting than just another crime documentary disinterring old bones .. Daily Dot
4.4
Along the way, they break down the case for or against each suspect and motive, including the father, the mother, the brother or the creepy stalker wh .. Sltrib
4.5
These people are, it should be said, incredible to watch and often hilarious its a movie that succeeds at, if nothing else, giving a warm sense of loc .. The Ringer
3.5
It makes sense to open the documentary on a bevy of JonBenets; its surreal and spooky, and it reflects our own motives back at us. The Daily Beast
5.0
A FANTASTIC WOMAN A Fantastic Woman.Yes, this sensitive drama and Berlinale best screenplay winner places one front and centre. Concrete Play Ground
4.5
It mines the depths of empathy and the limits of subjectivity, and examines how society paints monsters. Bfi
2.0
It doesnt haunt.The only special effect that works is nature itself. M Tv
4.5
Its about a lot of things.Then in its final five minutes a quite frankly stunning tracking shot it somehow becomes something new altogether. The Film Experience
4.0
Casting JonBenet is many things: funny, provocative, clever, audacious, maybe even dazzling like a Vaseline smeared, white toothed pageant smile. Bbc
3.5
Justin Simiens adaptation of his own movie of the same name, Dear White People (Netflix, streaming) is a 10 episode series about a group of students a .. Roger Cat
2.5
Meta documentaries like Casting JonBenet go a step further than calling attention to the stretchy subjectivity of memory and perspective. Buzz Feed
3.0
I loved watching all the dancing and thats really where the joy of this film is. rachelsreviews.net
4.5
Casting JonBenet most definitely shares an ethos with Joshua Oppenheimers The Act of Killing. Graffiti With Punctuation
4.5
Heavy on anecdotal storytelling and rhetoric, its a decent tribute. Nonfics
4.0
Greens film is simpler than Campos, but it arrives somewhere more genuinely moving. Ap
5.0
Sebastian Lelios emotionally rich transgender drama A Fantastic Woman was one. Dazed Digital
4.5
By setting aside an objective notion of the truth, Greens hybrid work is simultaneously more fantastical and closer to the truth than anything made wi .. Kill Your Darlings
4.5
Fact, fiction: it doesnt matter; as in the documentary as a whole, what resonates once more is the impact of life filtered into such a stirring, strik .. Goethe



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