Tabloid is short and sweet (it's pure movie candy), but by the end we've forged an emotional connection to Joyce McKinney at the deep core of her unapologetic fearless/nutty valor.

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It is a spellbinding enigma, and one of the damnedest films Morris has ever made.

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McKinney may well be a madwoman, but Morris connects so deeply to her obsessions that the film’s tone never seems exploitative or mocking.

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A lurid tale or a love story?

There is no better recommendation for “Tabloid,” the new film by Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris (“The Fog of War”), than the published reports that its subject

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'70s scandal brought to spotlight in 'Tabloid'

The film goes by "Tabloid," and it's one of the director's most squirrely matchups of form and content.

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The enjoyably wacky scenario of Errol Morris’s “Tabloid” is cookie-cutter material for the documentarian

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Errol Morris is a provocateur, a documentarian who cynically confounds audiences audience who confuse reality and truth.

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Was It Love? The ‘Manacled Mormon’ and His Kinky Weekend

By virtue of its title alone, “Tabloid,” Errol Morris’s astonishing new documentary, achieves a degree of serendipitous timeliness.

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The incredible story of Joyce McKinney in Errol Morris' Tabloid.

To Morris' credit, the film seems to invite and welcome both modes of viewing.

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Recalling Joyce McKinney saga

The movie deals with truth and memory, with the lasting effect of media stardom, with what happens when the cameras go away

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Morris revisits the odd case of ‘the Manacled Mormon’

Documentarian and Cambridge legend Errol Morris has described his new movie, “Tabloid,’’ as “a compendium of my themes.’’

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The film may not get us any closer to the true facts of McKinney's case than all the press materials it now joins in the archives, but like a breezy tabloid read, it makes for a diverting enough pastime.

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How to kidnap a cute Mormon, fail to win his heart, but become a tabloid sensation

Errol Morris couldn't have dreamed up a better news hook for his documentary Tabloid than the phone-hacking scandal that took down Rupert Murdoch's News of the World on Sunday.

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The Honey Blonde and the 'Manacled Mormon'

...a natural performer, overweight but charismatic, a drawling, enthralling Southern belle (perhaps slightly cracked) who is ready for Morris's film-long medium-closeup.

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A once lurid, now forgotten British scandal gets resurrected in this entertaining but narrowly focused doc from Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris.

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Scandal and Subjective Reality in Errol Morris's Tabloid

.. his ecstatically received and queasily entertaining new movie, is not so much a return to form as a reminder of his ongoing fascination with the freak-show fringe of American life.

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Errol Morris doesn’t get the scoop in his involving yet hollow doc

Tabloid never gets beyond its idiosyncratic surface.

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