The film's real fascination is with the documentary's maker, Craig Gilbert, played with wonderful faux innocence by James Gandolfini.

| Jun 10, 2020

Like a history lesson in the genre that's taken over so much of cable and broadcast network programming. It's also the sort of intelligent drama that has to compete with the cheaper, flashier shows that An American Family eventually spawned.

| Jun 10, 2020

Cinema Verite is smart and often moving, but unsatisfying overall. It compresses seven months of shooting, 3,000 hours of raw footage, and 12 hours' worth of televised story into a little over 90 minutes, losing complexity along the way.

| Jun 10, 2020

Just as 12 hours probably wasn't enough time to establish the Louds as real people, not soap opera stick figures, two hours isn't quite enough to explain exactly what went wrong with An American Family, either.

| Jun 10, 2020

They'd found good matches for the original participants, and there was a certain fascination in watching the segues between documentary artifice and artificial documentary. But the script was so clunky it virtually came with visible bullet points.

| Jun 10, 2020

An informative but somewhat plodding re-creation of the 1970s PBS special, An American Family. James Gandolfini steals the show as the producer who persuades the naive parents to invite cameras into their soon-to-be shattered house.

| Jun 10, 2020

Though you won't learn anything new, and the depth of the material might be lacking, the story of America's first reality television family still fascinates.

| Jun 10, 2020

There's probably too much time given to the agenda of producer Craig Gilbert, played by ex-Sopranos star James Gandolfini... but Cinema Verite is still a searing indictment of the casualties that occur when normal people became famous.

| Jun 10, 2020

What we get here is a complex story of the pressure of media fame reduced to a simply but accurately delivered cautionary tale.

| Jun 10, 2020

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| Jun 8, 2020

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| Jun 8, 2020

It's difficult to watch the innocence of a family be exploited, but at the same time fascinating to see how fragile marriage and family can be when it's held up for scrutiny.

| Jun 8, 2020

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| Jun 4, 2020

As is often the case with docudramas, the real story of the Louds is so much more engrossing and interesting than the smoothed-out and simplified version presented here.

| Jun 4, 2020

I don't feel like I know the Louds any more than I did before the movie. Having said that, one should appreciate Cinema Verite most of all for the performances.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 4, 2020

I found it almost entirely gripping. Apart from being tightly written by David Seltzer, the piece is forcefully driven by its three central performances.

| Jun 4, 2020

There's plenty for this drama to get its teeth into. But it plods along, with honking dialogue, one-note characterisation and clunking exposition that's shamefully pat about the ethics of filming the whole shebang.

| Jun 4, 2020

The telefilm recreates the period with stunning authenticity.

| Jun 4, 2020

Cinema Verite didn't get bogged down in making points about reality 온라인카지노추천 or documentary ethics, focusing instead, as all good films should, on character. Brilliant performances from Diane Lane, Tim Robbins and James Gandolfini... saw to that.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 4, 2020

A long, strange, fascinating trip that prompts plenty of valid questions about reality, celebrity, and the consequences of capturing people's lives on camera.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2020