The film achieves a Rashomon-like complexity of viewpoint, although it’s a lot funnier than Kurosawa’s classic film. It’s partly the Scottish sense of humour, so rich in its understanding of human frailty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2023

It’s a fascinating story that starts as an affable, strange-but-true tall tale but ends in a decidedly minor key.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

A labyrinthine network of self-deception, snobbery and megalomania as MacKinnon’s antiseptic arrogance creeps through...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Animated segments cleverly and visually ape M온라인카지노추천’s contemporaneous Daria, and add another lively dimension to this pleasingly calibrated ruse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2022

There is something tragic and disturbed at the heart of this tale but that is never investigated... He is allowed to talk yet never reveals himself. Still, you will enjoy the ride.

| Aug 18, 2022

Jono McLeod’s film is admirably unsensationalist: what could be easy fodder for summary character assassination becomes reflective and, as MacKinnon’s real life story is revealed, flecked with empathy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2022

Ordinarily, a documentary whose subject refused to appear on camera would be at a serious disadvantage. In the case of My Old School, that refusal is the making of it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2022

Here is a documentary for anyone who’s ever suffered from imposter syndrome or ever fantasised about going back in time to their school days, to reverse all those heartbreaks and humiliations. In other words: all of us.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

I thoroughly enjoyed this film. It's a documentary with a lot of twists and turns and quite a bit of wit.

| Aug 5, 2022

Jono McLeod brings a wistful, never-heavy-handed touch, making it a cut above other films of its ilk.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2022

My Old School will increasingly leave you slack-jawed.

| Aug 4, 2022

[A] lively, amiable, and inventive film...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2022

The film uses this sensational tale to compassionately explore why people deceive and how perspective can fuel empathy.

| Jul 27, 2022

An engrossing, often witty meditation on what it means to grow and evolve.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2022

An engaging film that will be best enjoyed if one restrains from searching the plot twist online before watching.

| Jul 27, 2022

In the end, “My Old School” is a well-made documentary that succeeds in most ways but that starts to crumple in the face of a single question: Who cares?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 25, 2022

Though this upbeat documentary centers on an unbelievable real-life hoax... it also captures a feeling that’s far more relatable: The fun of gathering all your old friends together to discuss the wildest thing that happened during your time at school.

| Original Score: B | Jul 22, 2022

Truth can be stranger than fiction, especially when elevated by McLeod, Cumming and British singer Lulu (“To Sir With Love”), 73, who performs a blissful cover of the title Steely Dan song.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2022

Stranger-than-fiction doesn’t come much stranger than My Old School, a cheerfully gobsmacked if overly twisted-up documentary.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 22, 2022

These nice, artful touches might seem slightly excessive on top of the lip-sync gimmick, but they provide a satisfying method of recreating the testimonials.

| Original Score: B | Jul 22, 2022