Author: The JT LeRoy Story
2016
7.7
Author: The JT LeRoy Story

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Indiewire

Eric Kohn

91

A reliable story from an unreliable narrator who has not exactly come to repent so much as recount, 'Author: The JT Leroy Story' offers an insight into celebrity and iconography from a housewife who, even before social media, created a viral smash from her apartment in Brooklyn.

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The Guardian

Nigel M Smith

80

"Laura Albert, the real author behind fabricated sensation JT LeRoy, tells her side of the story in Jeff Feuerzeig's endlessly riveting documentary".

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Variety

Dennis Harvey

60

"The woman who wrote acclaimed books while posing as HIV-positive ex-prostitute transgender male Leroy does not buy as much retrospective sympathy as she seeks in painting herself as victim".

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