Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Mala Mala depicts its subjects with an uncommon degree of empathy and understanding, not to mention glamor.

Name : Diana Clarke / Alias : Village Voice
This film does not pander. Rather, it demands that the viewer rise to the occasion.

Name : Ronnie Scheib / Alias : Variety
Beginning as a colorful documentary about the Puerto Rican transgender community. Mala Mala slowly morphs into a celebration of solidarity and collective activism without ever losing sight of its likable protagonists.

Name : Adam Nayman / Alias : AV Club
The outcome of this campaign gives the film a heroic arc, and yet amid all the images of celebration and joyful physical abandon the most lingering images are the ones depicting daily routines.

Name : Daniel M. Gold / Alias : New York Times
While affirming the dignity of its subjects, "Mala Mala" shows there's little glamour attached to the pursuit of selfhood.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
Filmmaker Crystal Moselle has seized onto terrifically compelling material, and while she hangs back with admirable distance, Grey Gardens-like, you wonder how she earned the Angulos' trust.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
More than a testament to the power of cinematic storytelling as food for the human spirit, "The Wolfpack" also is a portrait of a family that has had to rely on each other to survive.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
Their virtual imprisonment has shaped but not ruined them, and we slowly see them venture into the wilds of regular existence.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Even in the context of Tolstoy's famous dictum that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, the story of the Angulo brothers stands out.

Name : Simon Houpt / Alias : Globe and Mail
If the film is patchy, it shows promise. Thankfully, so do the boys themselves.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
A Manhattan fable about fear

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
Undeniably fascinating.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
[It] has to be seen to be believed.

Name : John DeFore / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Scratching the surface of a story one suspects is a good deal thornier than what's explicitly shown here, Crystal Moselle's The Wolfpack introduces a gang of siblings who have been raised in near-complete isolation in downtown Manhattan.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
Sometimes, all you need is a great subject to make a great documentary - or a willingness to chase after total strangers.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
What if all you knew of the world came from Hollywood movies? That's a loaded question - and Crystal Moselle's gripping doc runs with it. You won't be able to pull your eyes off the screen.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
What starts as a nonfiction mood piece grows frustratingly opaque as the brothers begin to venture out into the real world, meet girls, and get jobs.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
We are presented with something peculiar, that's noteworthy mainly for it's just being weird. Frankly, it's not weird enough to completely engage viewers for more than 90 minutes.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
The Wolfpack is a reminder that much of the "crap" we decry has the potential to liberate, offering a bridge off the island of terror we call the nuclear family.

Name : Ella Taylor / Alias : NPR
Moselle is also a patient observer who, without judgment or superfluous underlining, gradually teases out the pathos and the riveting dramas - some dark and disturbing, some bizarrely entertaining and heartening - of the parents.

Name : Scott Foundas / Alias : Variety
There is much to enjoy in director Crystal Moselle's debut documentary feature, which if nothing else begs a where-are-they-now sequel a few years down the road.

Name : Katharine Pushkar / Alias : New York Daily News
There is a train-wreck quality to this film. The story is so astounding, you can't look away.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
A strange and fascinating experience; you feel like you've been given entry into a mysterious world, where no one else is permitted.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
What a sad, strange, intoxicating movie.