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Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy

2018

Justin Kelly

Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Diane Kruger, Jim Sturgess ...

5.1

343

Drama It’s based on the true story of two women who created a fake child author persona, tricking the literary community and the Hollywood elite before the hoax was exposed: young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be the celebrated author JT LeRoy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Charles Bramesco The Guardian	"A fascinating synergy runs both ways between Stewart and the unlikely story of Leroy’s ascent to stardom in the publishing world (...) Kelly finds a genuine pearl of wisdom in the web of deception (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"Played by Dern in a fantastically watchable, often quite broad performance (...) The level of cognitive dissonance built up trying to sort out reality from layers of fiction and metafiction becomes genuinely confusing"	NEU
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A lot more than heart is lacking in the plodding, psychologically anemic script (...) For a movie about what’s going on under the elaborately staged surface, it’s pretty much all surface"	NEG
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"Kelly’s low key directing choices allow the two very fine central performances to take centre stage (...) Stewart is a hurricane (...) Dern, always just pulling back from the brink of grotesque in her depiction, is superb"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"An involving snapshot of two women grappling with their private and public personas until they collide (...) Dern often steals the show (...) Stewart is captivating"	POS
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"It’s a well-acted curiosity that never quite manages to be as intriguing as it should be."	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Anchored by its two excellent leads, the movie is sympathetic and, for the most part, unsentimental (...) Few actors inhabit the space between charming and monstrous as brilliantly as Dern does."	POS
United States	Jordan Ruimy The Playlist	"Kelly plays it too straight, employing a flat, uneventful style that never engages the viewer or gives any meaningful insight to the various conflicted, complex psychologies within the story."	NEG
United States	Christopher Schobert The Film Stage	"Delightfully juicy (...) 'Jeremiah' director Kelly and his cast deserve credit, however, for creating a film that is so undeniably entertaining."	POS
United States	Tomris Laffly rogerebert.com	"A rich and rewarding watch (...) The story feels in desperate need of further development of Laura in the first act"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"As a masterclass in having as little fun as possible with an irresistible premise, 'JT LeRoy' is a hard act to beat (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"The film is desperately devoid of ideas (...) Its version of Hollywood is bizarrely anodyne (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Adam White The Independent	"[It] proves that truth is sometimes far more interesting than fiction (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard	"The end result, however, is surprisingly even-handed. There’s both jealousy and chemistry between Albert and Knoop (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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