Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art

2020 Directed by Barry Avrich

A woman walks into a New York gallery with a cache of unknown masterworks. Thus begins a story of art world greed, willfulness and a high-stakes con.

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Review by laudanum at 33 ★★★★

Wow. Every month of 2021 I learn something sketchy about the Hammer family.
Review by Vedanth Sai ★★★½

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Review by Matt LaFemina ★★★★

Well-paced and fascinating look into the ultra-rich art world. You want to feel bad for the people but they are all so disgustingly rich, you also can enjoy the nonsense they went through. Really does a good job of showing just how absurd art collecting and art can be. So many experts being completely wrong and so many art lovers buying fakes a random guy made. The hilarity of it all is amazing and the doc brings in enough different voices to keep you entertained. Reminds me of a similar con in the wine world, Sour Grapes. You get a good amount of moving images here, but the story is wild enough to keep you interested
Review by Filipe Coutinho ★★★

Yet another look at the absurdity of the art world. It’s all monopoly money in the pursuit of emptiness. It’s fascinating from a sociological standpoint, but also we’ve seen this story a few times. I wouldn’t be surprised if the entire infrastructure of the current modern art world came crumbling down sometime soon.
Review by Cherbourgs ★★★

Do you ever just think about how a frustrated Chinese math teacher inadvertently reinforced Armie Hammer's privilege and enabled his liberal autonomy enough to let him explore his cannibalism kink
Review by wintermute47 ★★★½

Watching rich people knife each other in the back is like sinking into a warm bath.
Review by Stefan Birgir Stefans ★★★

the whitest boomeristic documentary you will ever see.
Review by nic ★★★ 1

“freedman knowingly sold stolen art” is the new “carole baskin killed her husband”. Apart from that, this could’ve been some oscar-worthy stuff, but remained pretty basic and unimaginative.
Review by Ray ★★★ 1

art drama is wild... like you really want to take this stuff seriously and then you watch these rich clowns cry because they spent millions on a fake rothko and its just like. sips tea that must really suck for you huh
Review by Alisa 💫 ★★★

If I was to watch a documentary about a member of the Hammer family this year, I really thought it would be about Armie Hammer and his anthropophagous tendencies.
But no, instead it concerns 80 million dollars worth of art fraud and a bunch of angry, rich New Yorkers. Shallow but very entertaining,
Review by Paul D ★★★½

In a sense this film is doing for art what Sour Grapes did for wine, and that is to point up the Emperor's New Clothes state of the market.
Although that's not at all what it's about or is trying to say.
What it's about is a New York gallery, and one of their employees in particular, which over the course of a decade sold $80m worth of forged painting which it was assumed were pained by abstract expressionists like Pollock, Rothko and others.
This would, you would think, be a scam which is easy to see through, but for the fact that before they become famous artists sell their work simply to live. As such it is possible for…
Review by AndrewTeix ★½

This movie of old people talking about fake paintings has a sexy bond style opening credits sequence for absolutely no reason

Recent reviews

Review by outsideSoap ★★★★

4 stars because i love a good unearthing of a non existent provenance . cant believe it's armie hammers dad tho lmao & also that none of the rich (white) people really got impacted.
Review by Lindsey Gates-Markel ★★★

Rich white people rabid for “justice”... terrifying
Review by Alex Turner ★★★

A very high three stars. For fans of crime documentaries about rich motherfuckers and modern art. Super easy to watch. Pour yourself a glass of fancy red wine and enjoy.
Review by Nerida ★★★

I don't think I've ever felt less sympathy for the "victims".
Not one likeable person in the whole thing.
Review by Eric ★★½

Overwhelmingly silly. Wealthy, high-end art people finger-pointing for 90 minutes at each other over who is really responsible for being duped by a trio of con artists. Almost every interview boils down to, "Any idiot could have seen that these paintings were fake, but that wasn't MY department."
Honestly a really fun watch. It MADEMELOOK.
Review by meghan ★★★

the way i can’t escape armie hammer
Review by Tyler Bieschke ★★

Within minutes of the film's start, Made You Look makes a daring claim about the number of art forgeries that rest on our museum walls. It even goes as far as quoting the director of the Metropolitan Museum who said he had no idea of how many fakes there could be within his galleries. Could something that looks so realistic be considered to be anything but a masterpiece? It's a perplexing question that gets asked here, one that never really is fully addressed.
Instead, director/producer Barry Avrich gets fully caught up in the drama of the Knoedler Gallery scandal, a scandal about how 80 million dollars of inauthentic Pollocks and Rothko paintings were sold. Here, Ann Freedman is questioned again…
Review by yourpalmike ★★★★½

Now this is how you do a damn documentary!
Review by discharge ★★★★

Muito bom
Review by Howard Lang ★★★½

It's a documentary I don't really have much to say. The art world is damn funny though that's for sure.
No it's upside-down just... The red sqaure should be on the bottom 😡😡😡
Review by Shelby Cooke ★★★★

Armie Hammer’s dad being just as creepy as his son... but with more fake tan
Review by Alex Russell ★★★½

Fuck the art market