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Nuts! lives up to its title in the best way, offering a delightfully unorthodox look at a bizarre -- and largely unexplored -- chapter in American history.
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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. Jul 29, 2016 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
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.
Tom Long
It's a daring formal gamble on Lane's part, but it doesn't completely work. Jul 25, 2016 | Full Review…
It's a daring formal gamble on Lane's part, but it doesn't completely work.
Evan Kindley
It's flat-out exciting; really, how many documentaries can you say that about? Jul 21, 2016 | Rating: 4.5/5
It's flat-out exciting; really, how many documentaries can you say that about?
Randy Cordova
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 | Full Review…
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.
Andrea Gronvall
"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. Jul 14, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
"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.
John Hartl
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 | Full Review…
This savvy director plays with history and viewers' conceptions of traditional documentary filmmaking, expounding in a way upon Stephen Colbert's concept of "truthiness."
Claudia Puig
Lane takes advantage of non-fiction for petty and selfish reasons, which makes Lane not too far removed from her own subject. May 21, 2019 | Full Review…
Lane takes advantage of non-fiction for petty and selfish reasons, which makes Lane not too far removed from her own subject.
C.J. Prince
Dr. John Romulus Brinkley Jr. had trouble with the truth. May 11, 2019 | Full Review…
Dr. John Romulus Brinkley Jr. had trouble with the truth.
Michael J. Casey
A surprising, strange, delightful film that's more than its strange premise would have you believe. May 2, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
A surprising, strange, delightful film that's more than its strange premise would have you believe.
Adam Patterson
Simply a good time, rollicking as it revels in one Brinkley exploit after another. Nov 8, 2018 | Full Review…
Simply a good time, rollicking as it revels in one Brinkley exploit after another.
Stephen Saito
In a different director's hands, this film might be a tragedy about the Depression-era consumers who fell for Brinkley's schemes, but for the most part, it's a quirky comedy Aug 18, 2017 | Full Review…
In a different director's hands, this film might be a tragedy about the Depression-era consumers who fell for Brinkley's schemes, but for the most part, it's a quirky comedy
Kathy Fennessy
Lane's loose, playful, collage-like treatment of the story sets just the right tone. Dec 29, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Lane's loose, playful, collage-like treatment of the story sets just the right tone.
Max Weiss
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