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Operates as both an examination of the dominating media mentality at the time and an embodiment of it, no less keen on delving into the juicy details now as tabloid rags were then.
In Joyce McKinney, Morris has found a fittingly weird and funny muse.
Errol Morris is a genius, a gifted documentarian who has made better movies than "Tabloid," but none so entertaining.
Though the events Tabloid recounts took place in the pre-digital age, the film also functions as a kind of prehistory of modern celebrity culture and tabloid journalism.
Morris's subject is sexual fantasy and a particular kind of American stupidity-the ability to substitute self-justification for self-knowledge. His tone is merry.
It is quite simply one of the craziest stories ever told, made all the crazier by the fact that it's true. Or at least some version of it is true.
Tabloid is a haunting portrait of a not-so-everyday media casualty.
Morris gets to have his cake and eat it.
It's a bizarre "where are they now?" story of a rather unedifying kind, and one feels ashamed of laughing at this sad exhibitionist.
Morris suggests that you can sometimes find profundity in triviality - and though Joyce condemns herself out of her own mouth, it is always possible to feel sorry for a woman whose obsession has so totally ruled her life.
A vivid picture of the way we lived then.
McKinney is no Robert McNamara, but there are lessons to be learned from this fog of sleaze.
Morris's doc is less about What Really Happened than exploring the lifespan of one of those stories that kept on giving.
[Morris] tells us nothing about the prurience and gutter morality of the tabloid newspaper industry that Britons haven't heard every day and that the world, in the Murdochgate era, is now hearing likewise.
Compelling, weird and queasy documentary on the eccentric Joyce McKinney and her stranger-than-fiction story.
A truly bizarre tale, Tabloid is enjoyable but not as compelling as some of Morris' previous documentaries...
This is a lighter, less significant work than his 'Standard Operating Procedure' or 'The Fog of War', but it's engrossing and pleasingly slippery with the facts.
A bizarre coda turns what begins as a playful exposé of the British media's sensationalist excesses into a surreal voyage into a warped mind no reporter could invent.
A compelling story told with Morris's usual flair.
Tabloid is such a mirthful, fascinating and fantastically entertaining documentary that you can't help but get caught up in all the sordid fun
McKinney is mesmerizing: the vain, expressive, motormouthed star of an elaborately structured drama of self that qualifies as one of the more astonishing first-person cinematic tours de force since 'Eddie Murphy Raw.'
...fairly lightweight. But it's nevertheless one of the most entertaining movies that will hit theaters this year.
A lot of fun; Morris himself is clearly unconvinced about Joyce -- and no wonder -- but she's a funny woman and hers is a ripping yarn if ever there was one.
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