Layton’s documentary lives up to the incredulous material.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2024

If you’re one of the unfortunate souls who frequently forgo the documentary portion of your film diet, then you should chow down on The Imposter.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 3, 2024

The Imposter is skilfully assembled film, as gripping as it is chilling and more memorable than most thrillers.

| Sep 27, 2021

Intermingling with archive home videos from Nicholas to reenactments on key events, Layton weaves an intriguing tale of emotional turmoil and deceit.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 9, 2019

On the surface The Imposter is one hell of a story, but it raises more questions than answers.

| Original Score: 6.8/10 | Jul 3, 2019

Bourdin's vulnerability and desperation at wanting to be loved, to belong to anyone, anywhere, is so heartbreaking, you can almost forgive him for lying.

| Mar 4, 2019

Director Bart Layton pieces together a story you wouldn't believe if it wasn't true.

| Sep 19, 2018

The plot and unravelling of this criminal Rich Little keeps you glued to the screen. But even more interesting than the star trickster are the family members who want to believe in his story.

| Aug 30, 2018

Layton's The Imposter is not only one of the very best documentaries of 2012, but is arguably a contender for best feature - full-stop.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 23, 2018

It's all fashioned together into one gut-wrenching, suspenseful, and often bizarre crime docudrama that is the creepiest true story to hit the big screen since 2010's Catfish.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 26, 2018

More than anything it's Layton's storytelling acumen that impresses - the movie unfolds like a psychological thriller, and in the second half effects a chilling twist on its own inherent implausibility.

| Aug 30, 2017

Credit director Bart Layton for taking a subject that appears barely capable of propping up hour-long, true-crime cable programming and turning it into compelling, full-length documentary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2013

The Imposter at every stage reveals another layer of the bizarreness of which human beings are capable.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 8, 2013

The Imposter has many lessons; for the rest of us, it reinforces the golden rule: never assume anything about anyone

| Feb 16, 2013

The revelations never stop. The title tells us what the story is about, but it is impossible to imagine the complex elements that involve not only the central character, but those who accept him as the person he pretends to be

| Feb 16, 2013

The film looks like many a television crime series, and is as manipulative. With no disclaimer or separation, its method screams that this is full honest fact.

| Jan 18, 2013

Few films in the past year have matched the narrative cunning of Bart Layton's captivating true-crime documentary...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2013

With his first feature doc, Layton proves himself not only adept at seeking out such true-life tales, but also telling them with the flair of a naturally gifted storyteller.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 7, 2013

This documentary film, like 'Catfish' a couple of years ago, is about a clever impersonator, but 'The Impostor' is an even stranger and more serious story, and by the time you get near the end of this bizarre tale, it gets even stranger than that.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 23, 2012

A gripping thriller, heartbreaking family drama, and fascinating true-crime saga all in one package.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 9, 2012