Release dates
April 28, 2017
98 months agoNetflix
Released
Casting JonBenet release date
The movie Casting JonBenet is already released on Netflix in the USA.
What the critics say
Based on 9 reviews, Casting JonBenet gets an average review score of 77
Kitty Green’s avant garde documentary allows people auditioning to play JonBenét Ramsey and her family to expound their conspiracy theories about the unsolved murder of the child beauty pageant star.
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Not your usual whodunnit investigative documentary, director Kitty Green's blend of fact and fiction explores the JonBenet Ramsey murder through the eyes of actors auditioning for a docudrama about the case.
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Thought you'd seen all you needed on the 1996 tabloid tragedy? Kitty Green approaches the Ramsey case from a fresh angle in this mold-shattering meta doc.
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Two new Netflix films reexamine JonBenet Ramsey and Rodney King through performance.
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Twice I've described Kitty Green's curious, alienating docu-whatsit Casting JonBenet to friends, and twice I've been asked, with surprising heat, "Why?"
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“Casting JonBenet” is not what you expect. It is not like the dozens of true crime episodes of shows like “Dateline NBC” or “48 Hours” that have analyzed the most famous unsolved murder of the ‘90s ad nauseam.
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Casting JonBenet remains troubling, and not just for the obvious concerns regarding the extensive discussion of the killing of a child.
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One has to hand it to Australian filmmaker Kitty Green for at least trying to grapple with this particular mystery from a novel perspective in Casting JonBenét — regardless of whether you find that perspective to be boldly unconventional or maddeningly problematic.
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It’s a handsome package that never transcends the banality of its ideas, most of which involve how different people, including from Boulder, were affected by the case.
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