As director Casey Affleck does a brilliantly invisible job.
Who cares, finally, whether this is a documentary or not? I'm Still Here paints a convincing portrait of a miserable, frustrated actor who has lived so long in the goldfish bowl that he can no longer conceive of a life beyond acting.
Good film; dodgy career move.
The ridicule that is heaped on him arguably reveals just as much about celebrity-obsessed popular culture as it does about Phoenix himself.
It's one thing to pull off a hoax; it's quite another to transform the fakery into authentic entertainment.
Maybe none of it is real, while all of it is true.
This is a film to be endured rather than enjoyed.
This comic portrait of Phoenix’s lost year ironically manages to raise some serious questions about fame and the media obsession with celebrity.
Affleck's meta-satire riffs amusingly on celebrity culture without hitting too many faux-doc highs.
Intriguing but ultimately self-indulgent.
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