Lane's loose, playful, collage-like treatment of the story sets just the right tone.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 29, 2016

Director Lane and screenwriter Thom Stylinski take a lighthearted, folksy approach to telling Brinkley's life story

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 1, 2016

Lane uses creative animation, archival footage and recordings - the good doctor apparently loved to be filmed - to tell an absolutely outrageous story of neediness, greed, delusion and gullibility.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 29, 2016

It's a daring formal gamble on Lane's part, but it doesn't completely work.

| Jul 25, 2016

It's flat-out exciting; really, how many documentaries can you say that about?

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 21, 2016

I can't imagine anyone believing that goat glands transplanted into human reproductive organs could cure impotence, but as this lively, offbeat documentary proves, plenty of Americans did.

| Jul 14, 2016

"NUTS!" starts out as one kind of character study and turns into a very different one. The gullible believe in miracles, fortunes are built and lost, and an entire generation is deliberately misled.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2016

This savvy director plays with history and viewers' conceptions of traditional documentary filmmaking, expounding in a way upon Stephen Colbert's concept of "truthiness."

| Jul 8, 2016

[An] entertaining hornswoggle of a movie.

| Jul 7, 2016

In ways good and bad, his was a distinctly American story, and filmmaker Penny Lane uses a variety of techniques to bring out its strangeness and specialness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2016

"Nuts!" is an intriguing, if patronizing, curio from the cabinet of American arcana, a geegaw from the collective attic that, when dusted off, looks grotesquely funny in the light of today.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 30, 2016

The movie deconstructs the process of self-mythologizing from the inside out.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 23, 2016

This is one of the most entertaining documentaries to come along in some time.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 23, 2016

This marvelous, mostly animated doc/drama hybrid couldn't have come along at a better time.

| Jun 22, 2016

Lane has a gift for finding the unexpected in the familiar, the right narrative structure, however eccentric, to tell a story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2016

"Nuts!," an inventive documentary directed by Penny Lane ("Our Nixon") from Thom Stylinski's script, tells a quintessentially American story - one that elicits both wonder and horror.

| Jun 21, 2016

Lane, like any great storyteller, springs surprises after luring her audience in.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 21, 2016

Throughout, director Penny Lane strings together telling incidents and anecdotes with a light touch.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 21, 2016

Filmmaker Penny Lane (real name) spoon-feeds the audience the myth that we so steadfastly cling to. Then, she pulls the rug out.

| Jun 20, 2016

Lane revels in the story's playfully nostalgic wonders without stinting on its implications or its passions.

| Jun 20, 2016