Tabloid

Morris makes the most of his material. The story is, a bit banal, but Morris craftsmanship keeps it afloat - and he does it in such fashion, that it sweeps you of your feet.

I want to have drinks with the Daily Mirror guy, dude's so jaded towards human malevolence. Fun title play by Morris & brief archive footage use. A bizarre story about a obsessive romantic woman burned by the invasive nature of modern press...and the Mormon religion. The epilogue sequence covering the dog cloning made things too strange to be poetic but ties her companion orientated character up nicely.

I think Joyce McKinney really experienced or thought she experienced True Love. And this drove her completely, utterly bonkers. The lesson here is clear. Dying alone it is!

"You can lie to yourself about a thing so long that you believe it."

It jumps across three entirely separate issues tied together by means of a single person...but it doesn't really delve too deeply into any one, or make any greater statements about sex or identity. But it is pretty entertaining!

Tabloid is the perfect movie for that night when you can't decide whether to see something low- or highbrow. It's seamlessly and satisfyingly both.

Eh. To its credit, it leaves almost all questions open for you to figure out what is what, but I just don't care much about any of it.

My first Morris film and I was overly entertained. It's a great story, and Morris keeps it nice and simple with a handful of interviews, pictures and filmclips from other contexts, edited together - or rather knit together - in a rhythmic way that makes time go fast. And how great are those characters? Morris makes all their best features come to the surface, presented so it's always laughable. Tabloid greatly secures diversity in its story covery, reflecting media's incapability of just that.

Morris effectively presents this multi-faceted tale as a he said, she said. For Morris in recent years, his films are often concerned with the slippery nature of truth, and Tabloid is no exception. That said, the film misses an opportunity to really dig into the media's role in this story, leaving the title as a bit of a misnomer.

At some point I started realizing that I was watching a real life Stephen King character (a la Annie Wilkes from *Misery*--with kidnapping and a *Pet Semetary* twist to boot!) I can understand the reason Morris would be interested in McKinney--as her story is really the perfect tabloid fodder. However, I'm just not interested in this short of thing, hence the relatively low-rating.

Another slick, cleverly done film from Morris, as much epistemology as documentary [and tabloid, really].

Very good doc.

Interesting and entertaining account ofJoyce McKinney. Strange.

It's as crazy as it sounds, Errol Morris definitely knows his s#%t.

So, um, that was weird.

Man, this movie is so much fun. Perhaps Morris's best, the only other rival being Fog of War. Just...well, I'd best not give anything away. It's so good.

Pretty fun tabloid story. Hearing it first-hand from the woman herself really makes it compelling viewing.

Evading the issue of what used to be called "yellow journalism," Morris' depraved method prevents us from ever getting out of this swamp.

Would have liked to know a little more of the details (Like where she got all her money from.), but other than that it was well worth the watch! Also props for the completely unbiased way it was produced.

It's hard to believe this is a documentary film but then again the story is so outlandish, and the people willing to be interviewed about it have such differing views (and agendas) that it's hard to take anything at face value - which is what keeps the film from being a drag. You really have here a story about storytelling and the way simple facts can be spun into any angle you want - and it's really funny, really weird, and oddly quite powerful.

Makes documentaries fun again.

A thoughtful examination of a truly interesting woman and her various intersections with the international news media.

Though the story Tabloid tells took place before the disastrous digital age, the film works as a sort of prologue of contemporary celebrity society and tabloid journalism. It's far from his most heavyweight work---it ends abruptly and seems like it could've plunged further---but Tabloid finds Errol Morris as clever, mettlesome and involving as ever.

Morris has really mastered the genre. He looks for the bizzare and interesting, and turns it to something both enjoyable and thought-provoking.

I wonder if tabloid type stories has artistic value by itselves, or a director like Morris somehow makes it respectable. And if it's the latter, does it mean artistic value is just a matter of perception? I enjoy this type of documentary (no lack of them thanks to Netflix). It has beauty queen-slash-dominatrix, dreamy mormon, international crime and even cloned dogs. What's not to like? Although, I wonder if people who read tabloids wouldn't say the same thing.

For whatever reason I didn't like this story, as much as I love Wyoming.

Forget 'Tabloid' and the manic, Old Bailey hating Joyce; this should be 'Spread Eagle: Nutjob'

Didn't know a thing about this before I watched it, and the documentary was all the better for it. The subject matter's so nutty that I doubt I would've spent 90 minutes with it if it hadn't been for the excellent use of old articles, photographs and video recordings. For what it is, it's just about as good as it gets. 2015 update: I don't remember watching this and I have no idea what it's about. o_O

The title, here, is less a description of the theme than a winking acknowledgment that the gap between this movie and tabloid journalism is rather narrow. In other words, it revels, somewhat, in appealing to the audience's more prurient interests, and certainly the filmmaker comes across as having a thoroughly good time uncovering if not indeed highlighting the lurid and sensational aspects of the story, of which there are admittedly quite a few.

Probably Morris's most strictly entertaining film. Everything from Mormon sex slaves to cloned puppies!

Morris, continues to show he is the master of portraying these oddball situations and oddball people. This is not as enlightening as some of his previous work, but it is an accurate portrayal of over-sensationalism at its finest.

No sympathy from me for McKinney, who is a demonstrable liar and almost certainly a rapist. Neither for the journalists who perpetuated, confused, and profited off the case. The tone gets a little too cute at points, but the film is informative, entertaining, and slick. The absence of victim Anderson and accomplice "KJ" is glaring but unavoidable, and Morris has done the best he can without their voices.

The wildly entertaining McKinney thrives in Morris's mastery of the the genre.

A fascinating tale told through interviews and clever editing. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but how many versions of the truth are there?

A strange tale, told from different perspectives. Well done.

I masturbated to this movie.

This is a great story, often hilarious, and Morris does it justice.

A great documentary filmmaker can take the sleaziest, most obnoxious piece of media gossip, something I for one would never give attention to, and transform it into something human, genuinely intriguing and thought-provoking. This is what Errol Morris shows with Tabloid.

This is vintage Morris in so many satisfying ways while also feeling like he's always reaching for new heights of profundity. It's got it all: characters too off-the-wall to be believed, a puzzling multi-layered mystery where objectivity gets derailed early on, and cloned puppies. And in the face of this crazy circus the film still feels honest, at least as far as people can allow themselves to be. It's the kind of great work to be expected from a master documentarian.

This is perhaps the most entertaining film of the year. It's easily one of the funniest and wildest documentaries I have ever seen and the best one I have seen so far in 2011. Errol Morris is a master at his craft. He has made films that are far more intellectual; ones that are steeped in political importance, but he's never made a film that has been so downright entertaining.

I love these kinds of documentaries, where you're never sure who to trust, or what the truth is. The woman is absolutely fascinating.

Probably could have worked just as well as a This American Life episode, but I guess then I'd have to google all the nudie pics

Basically just a bunch of eccentrics and scuzzy journos talking, fascinating stuff.

"The truth is an ever elusive concept, especially in the films of Errol Morris." - Andrew Schenker

People telling a story can be very boring. But this story is so over the top and so entertaining. It becomes weirder and weirder as it progresses. Who was telling the truth and who wasn't..? Eh, what the fuck?

WHAT.

girl, you cray

Very strange doc about a very strange person. Too bad the Mormon guy didn't want to be interviewed.

Everyone involved in this story is completely bonkers.