Title: A middling documentary I don't really trust
Review: I consider myself an objective reviewer in regard to Stone Reader. I've seen it twice, once at a film festival in New York and once on DVD. I found it an average film, about 45 minutes too long. Much too much screentime was devoted to the director and his studied emptiness. As far as questions regarding whether this film has a latent gay message, I will not speculate. I will say that I liked some of the interviews with writers, but those were few and far between. As farfetched as I found the story, I suspended my disbelief. I accepted what I saw as truth.I have since watched the DVD and read the Times article about how the filmmaker sent out 3,000 e-mails requesting that people post postitive reviews on Amazon, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY HAVE ACTUALLY WATCHED THE FILM. I find this outrageous. Stone Reader may have fooled me, but many of its reviews here do not.
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