I'm Still Here

This sporadically engrossing mockumentary, which gets better as it rolls along, must have been planned way back before Phoenix bombed on "Late Show With David Letterman." Full Review

It's really not much fun - in fact it's painful - to watch an actor on the verge of a nervous breakdown. It almost doesn't matter if the psyche in question is imploding artificially - as in staged - or organically. Full Review

There's a thrilling madness to Phoenix's Method. Full Review

Is Joaquin Phoenix putting us on? After watching the terrifying, near-brilliant expos I'm Still Here, in which the Oscar nominee's public and private unraveling becomes a sick joke, the question doesn't matter. Full Review

Fake or not, I'm Still Here is no fun to watch, and in fact Phoenix's situation comes off as so dire that it becomes a reason to doubt the film's authenticity. Filming someone having a mental breakdown is embarrassing and exploitative at best. Full Review