Casting About Reviews
Kansas City Star
Casting About is less a documentary than a lyrical tribute to women in general. Strong women, confident women, nervous women, goofy women, beautiful women and just normal-looking women. This film adores them all.
| Original Score: 3/4
Top CriticThis revelatory documentary lets us see what it's like to be an actress at an audition.
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| Original Score: 3/4
I thought I'd enjoy this, but it wound up giving me the creeps.
Los Angeles Daily News
Casting doesn't couch its message.
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| Original Score: 3/4
L.A. Weekly
Slowly evolves beyond highfalutin concepts like 'the craft of acting' into universal questions about surface beauty, inner depth and the double-edged sword of following a dream.
A simultaneously dispiriting and inspiring portrait of the auditioning process that will be of great interest to actors and casting directors.
I admired it and felt a little ground down at the same time.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Film Journal International
Those viewers who tend to regard glasses half empty rather than half full will be appalled at what could pass for outright exploitation by the filmmakers.
The most powerful moments find the movie surrendering to its female subjects' charisma, fixating on their hand gestures or settling into a static position, the better to watch a woman speak a stranger's words and become someone else.
| Original Score: 3/5
TV Guide's Movie Guide
This film stands as a tribute to the actresses who put their hearts on the line.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Film-Forward.com
A ready-made DVD special feature
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| Original Score: 2/5
There's no insight here, only voyeurism, and one blisteringly fine German performer reading from [director] Hershey's appalling script.
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| Original Score: 2/6
Slant Magazine
Casting About may be a definitive account of the cinematic audition process.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The acting process is joyously celebrated in Casting About, a captivating documentary shot entirely in audition rooms during the search for three thesps for a feature film.
