The "Emperor's New Clothes" con job of modern art takes one right on the kisser in Exit Through the Gift Shop, a little guerrilla style filmmaking about guerrilla graffiti artists and their status as darlings of the art world. full review

The plain fact is that, on some level, it doesn't matter whether the film is true or not. Either way, it's fascinating. Either way, we learn a lot. Either way, it's a great film. full review

Hoax or not, Exit Through the Gift Shop ends up energizing, aggravating, enjoyable and revealing. Is it art or isn't it? Who knows? Apparently no one. full review

Like Banksy's best street work, it pushes and prods our gullibility buttons and sends the mind swirling with questions of artistic authenticity and intent. full review

Exit Through the Gift Shop offers an absorbing glimpse of a bracingly subversive slice of the culture, as well as some tantalizing images of Banksy at work. full review

Exit Through the Gift Shop, credited as "A Banksy Film," poses some bitingly funny questions about the meaning and value of art. Is it in the eye of the beholder? Is it truth plus beauty? Anything you can get away with? Brainwashing? full review

Some have suggested that the whole story, including the emergence of Mr. Brainwash, is an elaborate hoax engineered by Banksy to satirize the commodification of art. If so, it's a brilliant one. full review

The brilliantly untrustworthy documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop reminds us that a film can start out in one direction and then change course so radically, it becomes an act of provocation unto itself. full review

The widespread speculation that Exit Through the Gift Shop is a hoax only adds to its fascination. full review

Fascinating. full review

This initiates a role reversal in which documentarian becomes artist and vice versa. full review

One of the best, most karmically satisfying comedies of the year, much to the chagrin of the people who are in it. full review

Exit Through the Gift Shop feels dangerously close to the promotion of a cult -- almost, dare one say it, of a brand. full review

Exit could be a new subgenre: the prankumentary.

The film is a curiosity. It's both an attempted documentary of an artistic movement and a bemused examination about why the movie failed in that mission. full review

Banksy makes an appealing narrator with a deft grasp of the questions raised. full review

A documentary on the art world may strike you as a yawn. No worries. You'll be laughing helplessly at this one. full review

We don't learn that much about Banksy, other than he's a lot more meticulous than his street warrior image would suggest. full review

Droll, aerosol-thin and ultrameta, a movie about a movie that supposedly was but actually wasn't being made about Banksy by his amiably bonkers Boswell, a compulsive French videographer named Thierry Guetta. full review

For the more you think about this unusual film, the more fascinating it becomes culturally and sociologically, dealing with notions of mania and obsession, art and commerce, hype and quality. full review