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Movies that feel like Tabloid (2011)
One of America's top documentary filmmakers turns his attention to the outrageous and nearly unbelievable story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming beauty queen who gained a great deal of notoriety after being accused of kidnapping a young Mormon missionary, restraining him in chains and raping him in 1977 England. The unbalanced McKinney is extensively interviewed, particularly about her ambition to write a memoir telling her side of the tale.
If you loved Tabloid, the closest films we have are Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999), Gates of Heaven (1978) and Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011). All three share Tabloid's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Dog (2013).
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If Tabloid hit the spot, these will too
The same hand behind both of them: Errol Morris
Both are Errol Morris's work, and they rhyme
Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft
Documentary built on stillness, twice over
The critics' underdog of the pair
Both lean on stillness more than on documentary
Contemplative documentary in both cases
Both know what they want from documentary
The documentary is handled with the same confidence
Both play documentary straight
Both working the same documentary territory
Both are documentary through and through
Documentary of the same temperament
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The best-reviewed films that share Tabloid’s defining feeling.
