Your mileage may vary, but Hulu's "The Amazing Johnathan Documentary" is my least favorite kind of movie, one that pretends to be about the famous celebrity in the title but instead focuses on the far less interesting. "The Amazing Johnathan Documentary" is ostensibly about a comic and is often very funny. The Amazing Johnathan Documentary starts as a blast but as the journey progresses, becomes ever more The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. I'm too trusting to make documentaries.
Bleary and secretive … The Amazing Johnathan Documentary. It is about the veteran Vegas comedian-slash-magician Johnathan Szeles, AKA the Amazing Johnathan, who once had a cult following for his gonzo act - like appearing to eat his own eyeball. With The Amazing Johnathan, Eric André, Benjamin Berman, Simon Chinn.
What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician - "The Amazing Johnathan" - becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion. The Amazing Johnathan Documentary, from first-time documentarian Ben Berman, picks up the story from there, capturing Szeles as he putters around a mansion strewn with memorabilia and medicine bottles, watching his old tapes and choking down pills. When 'Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary' director Ben Berman hits a wall with his subject, he turns his attention to the documentary process itself. The movie was originally called "Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary" when it appeared at Sundance, a pointedly noncommittal name. Film Review: 'The Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary'. What begins as a conventional portrait of an outside-the-box performer grows This is not a review of that movie, although Ben Berman's "Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary" (as this competing project was strategically dubbed at.
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Filmmaker Ben Berman follows magician The Amazing Johnathan in a twisty documentary. The Amazing Johnathan Documentary unexpectedly shows how the documentary form can be exhilarating because you don't know where a story will take you. You may think you have the narrative figured out, but then you have to adapt and possibly become something else.
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary seems born out of necessity rather than intent—a side effect of Berman needing to find a sensible ending for the film. The unbelievable strangeness inherent in truth has made for some incredibly destabilizing documentaries about the blurred lines of fact and fiction. Check out IndieWire's exclusive trailer below. Movie reviews for Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary.