This is Welles' great film, investigating truth vs. fiction, real vs. fake, authenticity vs. forgery, and the muddiness of the lines separating them all. Compelling real-life characters and astounding brinkmanship make this film a must see. Best of all, Welles plays a pretty good joke on his audience.

Unlike a lot of the big names associated with film, many of which have films featured here on Hulu via the Criterion collection, Orson Welles actually knew how to make great movies. Not everything he did was great, but there's some real genius in his work and this movie is one of those moments. Watch it.

For people who hate the fast cutting style of editing you think was invented by MTV, know this, Orson Welles invented it right here in this documentary before MTV even existed. Yes, Orson Welles, of Citizen Kane fame, which the same MTV generation said was boring and old. Here Welles uses this style he invented to actually convey something meaningful, creating an almost prophetic criticism of the MTV age that was to come. MTV has been considered lame for a long time now, but it's special brand of BS is still widely used in popular culture. F for Fake is an exploration of that BS beyond even the pop, but criticizing the world of higher art, the world Orson Welles came from. He even criticizes himself by calling himself a charlatan. Prepare to be tricked a lot as you watch this, you're going to have a hard time telling what's real and what's been made up, but by the end you'll get the point. It's the freaking Inception of documentaries and it's amazing. My favorite part is when Welles takes a break from all the fast cut stylings and exploration of human BS and just speaks about his Christian faith, affirming the validity of faith as a bastion of sincerity in an insincere world, and a refuge for a poor charlatan.