The Penny Black

A truth is stranger than fiction thing. It would make for a great Chandler-esque fiction movie, too.

The con is on -- maybe -- in The Penny Black.

There is a great mystery in The Penny Black, though you're never quite sure if it's a genuine mystery or a mighty manufactured one.

This fast and compelling narrative leaves viewers searching for the truth on screen and in their own lives, as the reality of who can be trusted seems just out of reach.

This intriguing documentary by William Joe Saunders and Alexander Greer take a pretty arcane subject -- rare postage stamps -- and turns it into a noirish thriller.

A genuinely engaging and perplexing gumshoe documentary, filled with twists and turns that the finest screenwriter could not replicate.

Director Joe Saunders's documentary, The Penny Black, isn't just a mystery about am inexplicable interaction between two mostly-strangers, but an intense examination of personal ethics and the reality we create for ourselves.

The Penny Black adopts the paranoid nature of its protagonist, each new discovery does not clarify the facts but bogs them down. Who is lying? [Full Review in Spanish]

Even though it never really pays off all the intrigue that it sets up, it's still really a fun ride.

Everything about the film - from its shadowy recreations of what could be home movies of Will's past to the score (dulcimer plunks that sound like we're watching an espionage thriller) - screams "Trust NO ONE," no matter how honest they seem.