As Ben Affleck's «Argo» effectively demonstrated, movies based on real - life events such as the 444 - day Iran hostage crisis can be every bit as tensely unpredictable and thoroughly entertaining as their entirely fictional counterparts. (latimes.com)
Beyond the increasingly porous barrier separating Kate from Christine, the film hits on a larger point, one supported by twin scenes of the actress buying a gun (first as herself, then in character): Documentaries are as phony, in what they choose to show us and how their subjects behave while we're watching, as their entirely fictional counterparts. (film.avclub.com)
McCarthy's male peers regarded her as politically unserious, a mere aesthete, and that seems partly true of her fictional counterpart. (firstthings.com)