There is a recently burgeoning genre of documentaries — usually either celebrity or true crime in focus — driven not by aesthetic or storytelling imperatives but by self-promotional machinery. They’re unscripted movies or series that look at the life of your favorite ’80s movie stars or unsolved murders as fodder for breathless online reports titled “10 Things We Learned From…” or “[Insert Famous Person’s Name Here] Finally Reveals…”
The emphasis is on revelation and not introspection or reflection. In a way, a documentary like Angus Wall’s Being Eddie, a generally amiable and adulatory 90 minutes streaming on Netflix, fails; in its softly hagiographic approach, the director never pushes Eddie Murphy to any place that feels untapped or confrontational, and therefore newsworthy.
It is by this standard that Marina Zenovich’s I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not is most successful. Ahead of its New Year’s Day premiere on celebrity.land, I’m Chevy Chase is already…
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