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What's different is a poignant sense of community that makes for a richer portrait overall. Apr 20, 2012 | Full Review…
What's different is a poignant sense of community that makes for a richer portrait overall.
Ben Sachs
"Fake It So Real" filled me with affection for its down-and-out heroes, a group of semi-pro wrestlers in Lincolnton, N.C. Apr 19, 2012 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
"Fake It So Real" filled me with affection for its down-and-out heroes, a group of semi-pro wrestlers in Lincolnton, N.C.
Roger Ebert
An engrossing documentary that lends humanity to independent pro wrestling's savage theater of machismo. Mar 15, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
An engrossing documentary that lends humanity to independent pro wrestling's savage theater of machismo.
Ryan Lattanzio
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Steve Dollar
The taunts in the ring may be make-believe, but the slams against the mat are agonizingly genuine in Robert Greene's vivid documentary "Fake It So Real"... Jan 12, 2012 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
The taunts in the ring may be make-believe, but the slams against the mat are agonizingly genuine in Robert Greene's vivid documentary "Fake It So Real"...
Andy Webster
Though the matches themselves, with their crude narrative frameworks and stereotypes, may be something of an anticlimax, the film unearths the tough and complex life experiences they distill. Jan 9, 2012 | Full Review…
Though the matches themselves, with their crude narrative frameworks and stereotypes, may be something of an anticlimax, the film unearths the tough and complex life experiences they distill.
Richard Brody
Outsider artists don't expect to be discovered; they just want to share their passion with the world. Greene's film communicates their devotion -- and their desire to hit people on the back with steel chairs. Apr 23, 2012 | Rating: 4/5
Outsider artists don't expect to be discovered; they just want to share their passion with the world. Greene's film communicates their devotion -- and their desire to hit people on the back with steel chairs.
Matt Singer
You certainly don't have to be a wrestling fan to enjoy its charms; the appeal comes from exploring what's essentially a very strange, very dangerous hobby. Feb 3, 2012 | Full Review…
You certainly don't have to be a wrestling fan to enjoy its charms; the appeal comes from exploring what's essentially a very strange, very dangerous hobby.
John Gholson
These wrestlers have a number of striking similarities which can be boiled down to one true commonality: They all felt like freaks. Jan 12, 2012 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
These wrestlers have a number of striking similarities which can be boiled down to one true commonality: They all felt like freaks.
Chuck Bowen
An entertaining documentary portrait of the barely professional, essentially hobbyist wrestling scene in Lincolnton, North Carolina -- a scene replicated in scores of American communities, where wannabe Rocks battle on YouTube and in tiny veteran centers. Nov 17, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
An entertaining documentary portrait of the barely professional, essentially hobbyist wrestling scene in Lincolnton, North Carolina -- a scene replicated in scores of American communities, where wannabe Rocks battle on YouTube and in tiny veteran centers.
John Beifuss
An affectionate portrait of an all-American subculture. Aug 25, 2011
An affectionate portrait of an all-American subculture.
Robert Koehler
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