Casting JonBenét

Name: Casting JonBenét
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 28, 2017
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 74

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Netflix | Release Date: April 28, 2017 | TV-14

Summary: In 1996, Boulder, Colorado was rocked by the mysterious death of six-year-old pageant queen, JonBenet Ramsey. Two decades later, director Kitty Green returns to audition local actors, unpacking how each remembers and relates to the ill-fated Ramsey family. [Netflix]

Director: Kitty Green

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 80 min

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Tim Grierson

Jan 27, 2017

The mirror it holds up to its subjects — and perhaps the audience — is incredibly, sometimes painfully illuminating. Read full review

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The Guardian Charlie Phillips

Jan 27, 2017

This isn’t really a film in search of a definitive truth – it’s a deliberate provocation to the conventional notion of truth in the age of media frenzies over salacious crime. Read full review

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MTV News Amy Nicholson

Apr 27, 2017

Casting JonBenét, my favorite film at this year's Sundance, shows a director in full control. Read full review

Patrick Gamble

Feb 15, 2017

Blending and bending genres to highlight the elusiveness of the truth, Green's avant-garde documentary presents the audience with a wealth of interviewees, each giving their own account of how the murder was reported. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Apr 28, 2017

Whereas crime docs typically seek to offer everything that is known about a crime, Casting JonBenet proves how little we will ever understand about that night. Read full review

A.A. Dowd

Apr 26, 2017

The film ends on a strangely moving theatrical exercise, as the various performers gather together on a soundstage recreation of the Ramsey home to dramatize all the major theories in tandem, creating an overlapping spectacle of speculative horror. Read full review

Robert Abele

Apr 27, 2017

Though a thoughtful reflection is occasionally allowed — sometimes humanity finds its way out — this indulgent, stylized slog is straight out of a well-worn aren’t-people-weird-and-awful playbook. Read full review

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NiK2000and3

Jan 9, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The end of the movie sums up everything incredibly well, one house, one family, one tragedy, but a million different perspectives.… Expand

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avr50

Jun 28, 2017

The movie changes what you might saw on previous documentaries. It´s different, but it is still a documentary. Casting JonBenét is a good movie, one that could not be seen more than once because it doesn´t have that watchable thing, but it´s good enough to see it just once. At the end,The movie changes what you might saw on previous documentaries. It´s different, but it is still a documentary. Casting JonBenét is a good movie, one that could not be seen more than once because it doesn´t have that watchable thing, but it´s good enough to see it just once. At the end, Casting JonBenét is a good documentary that keeps you thinking all the 80 minutes… Expand

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reviewfrom19842

Apr 29, 2017

Casting Jonbenet has a great ending. I was shocked by the hidden meaning of the movie very well done .

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Animespora

Apr 28, 2017

Boring and loosely executed. A minute you think it's getting interesting when they jump to the casting tapes. I couldn't get past the first 40 minutes and I think a vast majority of the audience will ultimately feel the same. The case itself is interesting but the depth within the caseBoring and loosely executed. A minute you think it's getting interesting when they jump to the casting tapes. I couldn't get past the first 40 minutes and I think a vast majority of the audience will ultimately feel the same. The case itself is interesting but the depth within the case itself seems to take a backseat at times for the stories of the casting people themselves. Watchable, I think.. but I couldn't hold interest.… Expand

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