Catfish

If you begin with the premise that all films, docs and dramas, are constructs of one sort or another and it's the how and why that's important, you'll have fun pulling this apart.

It must be said that the filmmakers, who profess to be as surprised as we are about how things play out, are being disingenuous at best and underhanded at worst.

And you thought MySpace was scary.

The film tells a devastating story that couldn't be more relevant to our times, who we are in real life versus the way we present ourselves online.

At the end of this exquisitely poignant film, it's clear we humans are going to need a refreshed emotional skill set if we're to make sense of the real relationships we forge in our virtual worlds.

There are some creepy chuckles to be had from this allegedly true account.

Is is all a stunt staged for the cameras? If so, then why isn't it more interesting?

definitely eerie and scary, though not in the traditional sense

In a classic case of filmmakers prioritizing their own pitch over the actual goods, Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost put Schulman's toothy-grinned brother Nev front and center as he investigates his fishy long-distance Facebook crush.

A film in which we spend an hour with these three dopes from Soho should have dispensed with each of them and just focused on this fascinating, lonely, quietly powerful woman from Michigan.

Fascinating, if far-fetched film of a real life game of online Liar's Poker exposing the perils of Internet romance.

Catfish is a unique documentary - like Capturing The Friedmans, it starts as one thing and mutates into a completely different, terrifying animal halfway through.