Tabloid

Errol Morris has a way with obsessive personalities. In Tabloid, he expands his collection of larger-than-life characters with an absurdist story that starts weird and just gets weirder. When I tell you the director is Errol Morris and the title is Tabloid, what more do you need to know? In this case, the less you know the better. At the center of the story is Joyce, a former beauty pageant queen with an IQ of 168. Her life's twists and turns shouldn't be spoiled. Let's just say her story involves cultish behavior, false identities and lurid sexual acts. You might call the film a love story, Morris's first since Gates of Heaven.