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| Hulu | Release Date: August 16, 2019 |
Starring:
Anastasia Synn, Benjamin Berman, Carrot Top, Chadd Smith, Doreen Szeles, Eric André, Jon Mugar, Judy Gold, Max Maven, Penn Jillette, Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson, Simon Chinn, The Amazing Johnathan, Weird Al Yankovic
Summary:
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary begins as a seemingly ordinary profile following the final tour of a dying magician, but becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as filmmaker Ben Berman struggles to separate truth from illusion.
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Jul 17, 2019
Berman ultimately turns his incredible meta-story into an ode to documentary filmmaking. And its exhilarating stuff because you have absolutely no clue where this movie is going to take you next. Berman’s doc keeps pulling the rug from under you, and it’s a high-wire act of reinvention that rewards the viewer at every step.
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The Guardian
Nov 15, 2019
Berman is guilty of one of the most tiresome cliches in documentary – solemnly playing the audio of a phone conversation, with subtitles, over an exterior shot of the building where it is taking place, giving the impression that this is smoking-gun proof of something sensational, or at any rate interesting, when it is pretty ordinary.
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Feb 20, 2020
Love this doc. Plenty of twists and turns and ups and downs. The director certainly plays things to his own advantage, but this is no bad thing...he ends up with a great film. Jonathan (the subject) is a total dude!
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