Author: The JT LeRoy Story

Author is a particular kind of documentary: a first-person account of the creation of a myth by its creator. As such, it poses all sorts of questions about the intersection of art, celebrity and psychological disturbance in our media culture, but it also gives us Laura Albert as a shape-shifting artist of astonishing talent, resourcefulness and originality.

Author: The JT Leroy Story, a documentary from Jeff Feuerzeig,is as truthful as it gets. Yet its content is so wildly absurd, that it plays like a work of fiction.

The result is so far-fetchedly entertaining it feels like a fantasist’s fevered imaginings. Which, in a way, it is.

Author is one of the most entertaining documentaries in recent memory — and, possibly, the origin story of catfishing.

Feuerzeig has made a fascinating documentary about a fascinating occurrence. Author implicitly stokes so many of the moral questions the incident inherently raises.

"Author” is most interesting — and least self-aware — as a study in the gullibility and narcissism of the celebrity class.

Jeff Feuerzeig isn't skeptical enough of Laura Albert's explanations and rationalizations.