This is an extraordinary, provocative film and one that grips like a vice right up to the troubling and moving finale.
Mark Zuckerberg’s bad year continues with a compelling doc exploring the potential pitfalls of his social network. Funny, unsettling and thoroughly engrossing, Catfish is the cat’s whiskers.
Unbelievable filmmaking.
The film reveals that the internet not only facilitates deception but also offers innumerable possibilities for detection too: if you’re going to lie, you’d better cover your tracks.
Catfish keeps you on the edge of the seat, and it's an eerie introduction to a new web-driven emotion.
Catfish boils down to a very human, very moving, story.
All I can say for certain is that it will absorb you from the first frame to the last.
The film begs lots of questions about how, and when, it became clear any of this was worth documenting, but it certainly was.
Is it real? When a film's this good, the question becomes secondary.
The way in which the film handles its staggering reveals...is both surprising and, at times, a little suspicious.
Catfish could have been so much more intriguing and substantial, if not for the reek of red herring.
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