Name : Martin Tsai / Alias : Los Angeles Times
A cri de coeur on the samurai flicks of a bygone era, "Uzumasa Limelight" unfolds understatedly and movingly like something from Clint Eastwood at the top of his game.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
Directing with an old-fashioned tenderness toward his unassuming star, Ken Ochiai conjures a swan song to a waning art form and those who practice it.

Name : Michael Nordine / Alias : L.A. Weekly
None of this goes down with any real verve, though Kamiyama's wrinkled face is a small marvel of expressivity.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Even for those who don't regard the notion of perfect objectivity with the wariness it deserves, there are compensatory insights in this movie's unapologetic fascination with its subject.

Name : Justin Lowe / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Rather than a conventional inquiry into the circumstances and personalities that contributed to Albert's deception, Feuerzeig allows her to tell her own story, eschewing most other sources involved in her professional debut.

Name : Dennis Harvey / Alias : Variety
In dire need of additional voices that might substantiate Albert's account, and rendered suspect by their conspicuous absence.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
Never is Albert confronted with the ramifications of her falsely hijacking a fatal disease, a sexual identity or a social strata that was alien to her.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
Fascinating but frustratingly murky .

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Feuerzeig lets us put together the puzzle pieces of Albert's story. The film's final five minutes - a punch to the heart - make it all clear.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
By turns fascinating and unseemly.

Name : Leah Pickett / Alias : Chicago Reader
This documentary is well crafted but suffers from a deeply unsympathetic protagonist.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
A wild trip with a highly unreliable narrator.

Name : Oliver Jones / Alias : New York Observer
The film effectively explores nature of identity, celebrity, and the creative process in a way that is satisfying, even if many of the questions it raises don't go entirely answered.

Name : Matthew Lickona / Alias : San Diego Reader
While Feuerzeig makes good visual and narrative use of the world's adulation and outrage over LeRoy and his eventual outing, all those fireworks are exploded solely to illuminate [the real subject, Laura] Albert.

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
A fascinating peek into one of the wildest literary scandals in recent years and the bizarre nature of celebrity relationships.

Name : Richard Brody / Alias : New Yorker
Feuerzeig's flashy narrative antics reduce a serious and substantial story to mere snippets of information.

Name : Melissa Anderson / Alias : Village Voice
Queasily absorbing .

Name : Leah Greenblatt / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Even when the film fails to ask so many of the questions its narrative begs, Author is still a tricky, fascinating look at the strange nexus of art, artifice, and the intoxicating cult of celebrity.

Name : Godfrey Cheshire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
One of most the sharply crafted and enthralling documentaries in recent memory.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Do the widely-praised writings of LeRoy become less praiseworthy when you know they were crafted under false pretenses? It's a question worth chewing on even if the film asking it stacks the deck.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
There is such a thing as a passionate, headlong phony, and you'll meet her in Author: The JT LeRoy Story.

Name : David Lewis / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Working in the film's favor is that the JT saga remains relevant today, in this age of Internet alter egos, blurred-reality shows and our continued obsession with fame and celebrity.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Sharply filmed, "Author" explores the appeal of even the most contrived myths, reminding us that even when Pinocchio hides his lengthening nose, he's telling lies.