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  • Corman's World is brisk and funny, a documentary that feels like it should be a mock-doc but has the advantage of truth.

    Marshall Fine: Movie review: Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel Marshall Fine 2011

  • Those patient few who watched I'm Still Here will remember a heavy-handed mock-doc encounter in which Ben Stiller attempts to get Phoenix to read the script for Greenberg, in which he seems singularly uninterested.

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010

  • The mock-doc continues to rock tonight, scaring up a plot centering on Jim and Pam celebrating the christening of their baby, Cece.

    Tonight's TV Hot List: Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010 2010

  • The well-spun mock-doc sitcom puts some ho-ho-ho's and yuletide yuks in the Christmas season with a one-hour holiday-themed outing.

    Tonight's TV Hot List: Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 2010

  • Unlike Zelig -- Woody Allen's brilliant mock-doc about a man with the bizarre ability to morph into the people around him -- Sean J. Combs various transformations had nothing to do with conformity.

    Barry Michael Cooper: Once Upon a Time in America: My Interview with Sean John Combs 2009

  • Just when you thought there was nowhere left to go with the mock-doc style film, or for that matter, films with “American” in the title there are literally hundreds of these, many of them award winning, comes along the socio-political satire/mock-doc film American Zombie.

    Row Three » American Zombie - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions 2008

  • "A mock-doc in format, but a film that actually finds its strangest epiphanies in genuine non-fiction footage, [The Wild Blue Yonder] is science fiction, and not all that different from Herzog's apocalyptic tone poem Fata Morgana filmed 35 years earlier," writes Michael Atkinson, who also reviews "[a] nother German sine qua non," Pandora's Box.

    GreenCine Daily: Germans, 11/23. 2006

  • Shot in a mock-doc style by IBM itself, actual company sales execs hawk million-dollar servers by cold-calling random names from the phone book.

    Periscope 2007

  • It was a three-part series about this AM or MP-type going round Wales trying to gauge the mood of the populace, a bit like a mock-doc, if you will.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • This will be lure enough for most fantasy addicts, but André øvredal's movie has wittier ideas up its sleeve than the average "mock-doc" shocker, a genre it transcends through sheer originality.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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  • Mock documentary

    April 18, 2017

  • See mockumentary.

    April 18, 2017