{{No plot|date=June 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = Actor Martinez | image = File:Actor_Martinez_2017_Film_Poster.jpg | alt = | caption = | director = {{Plainlist| * Mike Ott * Nathan Silver }} | writer = {{Plainlist| * Mike Ott * Nathan Silver }} | producer = {{Plainlist| * Britta Erickson * Katie Shapiro * Patrick Hackett * Heika Burnison }} | starring = Arthur Martinez | cinematography = Adam J. Minnick | editing = Gerald D. Rossini | music = Nicole Arbusto | studio = Mary Jane Films | distributor = Breaking Glass Pictures | released = {{film date|2016|1|28|IFFR|2017|3|10|United States}} | runtime = 75 minutes<ref name=avc/> | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Actor Martinez''''' is a 2016 American mockumentary film written and directed by Mike Ott and Nathan Silver and starring Arthur Martinez.
==Premise== Independent film directors Mike Ott and Nathan Silver are hired by Arthur Martinez, a Denver computer repairman and would-be actor, to make a film starring Arthur as a fictionalized version of himself.<ref name=avc/>
==Cast== *Arthur Martinez as Arthur *Lindsay Burdge as Lindsay *Mike Ott as Mike *Nathan Silver as Nathan *Kenneth Berba as Kenneth *Rae Radka as Rae *Sarah Sansoni as Casting Call Featured Extra *Andy Hankins as Extra *Connor Long as Tech Appointment Featured Extra *Bobby Black as Bobby *Sanaz Fatemi as Casting Call Featured Extra *Cindy Silver as Cindy *Cory Zacharia as Cory *Allie Escaffi as Meeting Participant *Aaron Kenneth Myers as Featured Extra
==Release== ''Actor Martinez'' premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam on January 28, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/rotterdam-exclusive-clip-from-nathan-silver-and-mike-otts-actor-martinez-casts-a-girlfriend-86123/|title=Rotterdam Exclusive: Clip From Nathan Silver And Mike Ott's 'Actor Martinez' Casts A Girlfriend|last=Walsh|first=Katie|work=IndieWire|date=January 27, 2016|access-date=December 21, 2023|archive-date=December 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231221163552/https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/rotterdam-exclusive-clip-from-nathan-silver-and-mike-otts-actor-martinez-casts-a-girlfriend-86123/|url-status=live}}</ref> Its North American premiere was held at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 14, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tribecafilm.com/news/tribeca-film-festival-patti-smith-ethan-hawke-grace-frankie-jane-fonda-lily-tomlin-david-byrne-2016|title=What to Do Today: April 14|work=Tribeca Film Festival|date=April 14, 2016|access-date=December 21, 2023|archive-date=December 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231221163552/https://tribecafilm.com/news/tribeca-film-festival-patti-smith-ethan-hawke-grace-frankie-jane-fonda-lily-tomlin-david-byrne-2016|url-status=live}}</ref> It was released in select theaters on March 10, 2017.<ref name=avc/>
==Reception== The film has an 82% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 17 reviews.<ref>{{cite web|title=Actor Martinez|website=Rotten Tomatoes|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/actor_martinez|accessdate=June 29, 2023|archive-date=June 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629120738/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/actor_martinez|url-status=live}}</ref>
Guy Lodge of ''Variety'' gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Narrative and reality clash, tussle, and are eventually rendered indistinguishable in a witty, tortured puzzle picture..."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Lodge|first=Guy|title=Film Review: 'Actor Martinez'|date=March 10, 2017|magazine=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/actor-martinez-review-1202005692/|accessdate=June 29, 2023|archive-date=June 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629120742/https://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/actor-martinez-review-1202005692/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of ''The A.V. Club'' graded the film a B−, calling it a "funny, low-key head-scratcher..."<ref name=avc>{{cite web|last=Vishnevetsky|first=Ignatiy|title=Fiction poisons reality in Actor Martinez, an offbeat portrait of a would-be star|date=March 8, 2017|website=The A.V. Club|url=https://www.avclub.com/fiction-poisons-reality-in-actor-martinez-an-offbeat-p-1798190598|accessdate=June 29, 2023|archive-date=June 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629121538/https://www.avclub.com/fiction-poisons-reality-in-actor-martinez-an-offbeat-p-1798190598|url-status=live}}</ref>
Charles Bramesco of ''Uproxx'' gave the film a positive review and wrote, "''Actor Martinez'' is more like a dense work of film criticism that plays like a movie, and an enjoyable one at that."<ref>{{cite web|last=Bramesco|first=Charles|title=Tribeca 2016: The Ingenious Meta-Doc 'Actor Martinez' Is A Riddle Inside A Puzzle Inside An Engima|date=April 15, 2016|website=Uproxx|url=https://uproxx.com/movies/actor-martinez-review/|accessdate=June 29, 2023|archive-date=June 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629122138/https://uproxx.com/movies/actor-martinez-review/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Frank Scheck of ''The Hollywood Reporter'' gave the film a negative review and wrote, "''Actor Martinez'' raises plenty of questions. The problem is that none of them are particularly interesting."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Scheck|first=Frank|title='Actor Martinez': Tribeca Review|date=April 19, 2016|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/actor-martinez-tribeca-review-885711/|accessdate=June 29, 2023|archive-date=June 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629122412/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/actor-martinez-tribeca-review-885711/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Chuck Bowen of ''Slant Magazine'' awarded the film three and a half stars out of four and wrote, "Mike Ott and Nathan Silver's ''Actor Martinez'' has a ghostly, tremulous quality that's bound to get under the skin."<ref name=slant>{{cite magazine|last=Bowen|first=Chuck|title=Review: Actor Martinez|date=March 6, 2017|magazine=Slant Magazine|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/actor-martinez/|accessdate=June 29, 2023|archive-date=June 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629122659/https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/actor-martinez/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Marjorie Baumgarten of ''The Austin Chronicle'' awarded the film two stars out of five and wrote, "Everyone involved in ''Actor Martinez'' deserves kudos for the effort, but the unengaging result would be better chalked up to a failed experiment rather than shared with others in theatrical settings."<ref>{{cite news|last=Baumgarten|first=Marjorie|title=Actor Martinez|date=March 24, 2017|newspaper=The Austin Chronicle|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2017-03-24/actor-martinez/|accessdate=June 29, 2023}}</ref>
Andy Webster of ''The New York Times'' gave the film a positive review and wrote, "The self-references here, while intriguing, approach a comic navel-gaze. "Actor Martinez" has a saving grace, however: Ms. Burdge, radiating her customary charisma."<ref>{{cite news|last=Webster|first=Andy|title=Review: Fiction and Nonfiction Blur in 'Actor Martinez'|date=March 16, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/movies/actor-martinez-review.html|accessdate=June 29, 2023|archive-date=June 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629123249/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/movies/actor-martinez-review.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
Kimber Myers of the ''Los Angeles Times'' gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Don't let the low-res, low-budget filmmaking fool you. ''Actor Martinez'' is an ambitious film that works on a variety of levels."<ref>{{cite news|last=Myers|first=Kimber|title=Review: Docufiction 'Actor Martinez' questions cinematic truth|date=March 9, 2017|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-mini-actor-martinez-review-20170309-story.html|accessdate=June 29, 2023|archive-date=June 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629120742/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-mini-actor-martinez-review-20170309-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
Jason Bailey of ''Flavorwire'' gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Fascinatingly, the film keeps working its way around to the very questions we're asking of it, and bouncing up against its own boundaries in ways that are either reflective or indulgent, or maybe both."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Bailey|first=Jason|title=10 Tribeca Film Festival Movies You Have to See|date=April 14, 2016|website=Flavorwire|url=https://www.flavorwire.com/571241/10-tribeca-film-festival-movies-you-have-to-see|accessdate=June 29, 2023|archive-date=August 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826202638/https://www.flavorwire.com/571241/10-tribeca-film-festival-movies-you-have-to-see|url-status=live}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb title|4411500}} * {{Rotten Tomatoes|actor_martinez}}
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