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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenMike Ott and Nathan Silver's film has a ghostly, tremulous quality that eats under the skin.
- Blurring the line between a narrative movie and a documentary, Actor Martinez is a film experiment that’s difficult to unpack but hilarious to watch unfold.
- 80VarietyGuy LodgeVarietyGuy LodgeNarrative and reality clash, tussle, and are eventually rendered indistinguishable in a witty, tortured puzzle picture — one in a growing subgenre of hybrid inquiries into the nature and limits of performance, which is not to say there’s anything quite like it out there.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKimber MyersLos Angeles TimesKimber MyersLike the man at its center, the film is aggressive and awkward, but there’s a sense of playfulness in how it pokes and prods at the world of independent cinema.
- 67The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyIt’s a clever but self-defeating exercise: a meta-fictional cautionary tale about itself.
- 60The New York TimesAndy WebsterThe New York TimesAndy WebsterSome movies about making movies (Truffaut’s “Day for Night,” for one) are charming. The self-references here, while intriguing, approach a comic navel-gaze. Actor Martinez has a saving grace, however: Ms. Burdge.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe film aims to be a cautionary tale, but it doesn’t seem that the filmmakers have absorbed the lesson.
- 20Village VoiceSam WeisbergVillage VoiceSam WeisbergWhether the real-life Martinez is this hotheaded and quick-tempered is left a mystery, but it matters not a whit, because even five minutes in the company of this Martinez is excruciating.