
The unsolved death of six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey remains the world's most sensational child murder case. Over 15 months, responses, reflections and performances were elicited from the Ramsey's Colorado hometown community, creating a bold work of art from the collective memories and mythologies the crime inspired.... (Full plot summary below)
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The unsolved death of six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey remains the world's most sensational child murder case. Over 15 months, responses, reflections and performances were elicited from the Ramsey's Colorado hometown community, creating a bold work of art from the collective memories and mythologies the crime inspired.
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| Refinery29Elena NicolaouNo recreation can bring us closer to the truth, but perhaps this weird work of art can. |
| Screen InternationalTim GriersonThe mirror it holds up to its subjects — and perhaps the audience — is incredibly, sometimes painfully illuminating. |
| The GuardianCharlie PhillipsThis isn’t really a film in search of a definitive truth – it’s a deliberate provocation to the conventional notion of truth in the age of media frenzies over salacious crime. |
| Birth.Movies.Death.Meredith BordersBeyond its showy device, or maybe because of it, this is a deeply thoughtful and compassionate film. |
| Time OutJoshua RothkopfDesperately, these people all want the truth -- as well as the gig -- and that tension is what makes Casting JonBenet provocative. |
| The Daily BeastAmy ZimmermanOver an expertly paced and constructed 80 minutes, we come to be more fascinated by these strangers than by their shared obsession: the dead little girl who, for whatever reason, has triggered their on-camera confessions. |
| Film ExperienceGlenn DunksCasting JonBenet is a dozen films in one. At only 80 minutes, that's a lot; and yet it never feels over-stuffed, overwrought, or like it is collecting and abandoning subplots (a frustrating trend of some recent documentaries). |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeDirector Kitty Green’s high-concept documentary Casting JonBenét breaks fresh ground, probing the public, rather than family members or suspects (often the same thing). |
| The AtlanticDavid SimsCasting JonBenét is a curiosity, but an arresting one-an uncomfortable 80 minutes spent with strangers who are undeniably difficult to look away from. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansKitty Green mines such rich territory in her post-modern documentary. |