Paul Elliott’s review published on Letterboxd:
Interspersed with footage of co-writer and director Orson Welles fumbling in the editing room, F for Fake throws out developments and plot reversals at high speed throughout its brief runtime as it incorporates documentary interviews with dramatic representations. It's a light and animated quasi-documentary about an assortment of forgers and fraudsters while primarily concentrating on Hungarian-born professional art forger Elmyr de Hory, who purportedly sold over a thousand art forgeries to prestigious international art galleries.
Some wry and literate narration escorts the meandering investigation on the natures of authorship and genuineness, and all come together to conceive in constructing a new and original method of storytelling. The contortion of so-called facts is more relevant than ever in today's fake news climate and this reflection on forgeries, falsehoods and misrepresentations proceeds in boasting about the fallacies it's telling. It was also Welles' twelfth and final completed film, and there's a great deal of regret expressed for the lost films that didn't get made. This prism-like illusion serves as a perfect epitaph for one of the greatest innovative filmmakers of all time, and within the dishonesty and the extravagant camera tricks lay a profound commentary on art, materiality and truth.