The result is a deliberate conflation of fact and fiction that yields unexpected emotional impact.
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TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Taylor, while perhaps a little small to become a real Vegas showboy, makes for a very charismatic hero, while Joaquin Baca-Asay's cinematography captures all the glitz and slightly tawdry glamour of the Vegas strip.
The lesson of Showboy is how disturbingly easy it is for an audience to trust what it sees when confronted with a film posing as factual documentary.
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L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
The film takes on unexpected weight when Christian cops to his intense personal loneliness. That's not the stuff of high comedy, but it's brave and, in these days of rah-rah, everyone's-in-love gay media, rather refreshing.
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The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Unlike such similar efforts as "A Mighty Wind," this would-be satire isn't funny enough to be entertaining, nor is it clever enough to fool us.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
So amateurish that its awkward Whoopi Goldberg cameo actually adds a touch of class, Showboy is an ill-conceived, often implausible hybrid of fact and fiction.
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New York PostLou Lumenick
New York PostLou Lumenick
Lethargically paced, badly edited and shot in hideous digital video.