A fascinating, insightful, wacky, entertaining documentary.

They Call Me Dr. Miami offers a fascinating, if often quite shocking, look at modern-day values and aspirations.

Jean-Simon Chartier has made a dazzling and defiant documentary about the frum exhibitionist.

Director Jean-Simon Chartier creates an entertaining and thoughtful exercise in contradictions with They Call Me Dr. Miami.

Through its fun and balanced profile of Dr. Salzhauer, They Call Me Dr. Miami opens up a wider consideration of body image and self-promoting shamelessness.

In the brisk eighty-seven-minute running time Chartier does not spare the spectacle. “They Call Me Dr. Miami” explores the ethical dilemmas that arise from Salzhauer’s unorthodox approach to his practice.

Canadian docs in the Special Presentations program include a particularly odd film They Call Me Dr. Miami.

A glimpse of the famed plastic surgeon’s life beyond social media.

★★★½ /4 Stars

This is an entertaining and surprisingly thoughtful look at plastic surgery and religious faith, and trying to balance a life rooted in tradition with the demands of an increasingly vain and image-focused modern society.

The Jean-Simon Chartier-directed film focuses on Dr. Michael Salzhauer, whose outrageous social media persona includes daily live-streams of graphic plastic surgery procedures.

★★★★★★★★★ 9/10 Stars

Canadian director Jean-Simon Chartier manages to make something worthy of the greatest documentaries to showcase important issues.

Celebrated for his outrageous social media persona, this documentary follows the most famous surgeon in America.

Canadian filmmaker Jean-Simon Chartier (Playing Hard) follows Salzhauer from operating room to temple without judgment, holding up his two sides for contemplation.

“With this complex and captivating portrait, the director wanted to probe the idea of perpetual self-representation.”

“An intriguing, entertaining documentary, one which breaks new ground on the subject of plastic surgery…”

Ready to make its world premiere on March 12, the documentary They Call me Dr. Miami was one of the first public events in Miami to get caught in the crosshairs of coronavirus.

★★★★★★★
7/10 Stars

[…] Exposed here are the kind of fun lifestyles and flashiness that generally make for fascinating stories… They Call Me Dr. Miami shows that this business should very much be everyone’s business when it becomes a health hazard…

They Call Me Dr. Miami was meant to be one of the highlights of the festival, scheduled to make its world premiere.

Chartier builds a complex portrait of a consummate professional who nevertheless long ago crossed a moral Rubicon, no matter his religious misgivings.

First there was Tiger King; now there’s the Snapchat King.

The golden age of “sharing” and social media has taken us to places as a society we never imagined

Watch Jean-Simon Chartier’s They Call Me Dr. Miami (May 14), a biopic about celebrity plastic surgeon and reality TV star Dr. Michael Salzhauer.

2020 festival titles to stream via the CBC include Jean-Simon Chartier’s They Call Me Dr. Miami, about a celebrity plastic surgeon who livestreams butt lifts and breast surgeries.

Miami Film Festival will present the online world premiere of the Canadian documentary They Call Me Dr. Miami on April 25 and 26.

They Call Me Dr. Miami does not seek to expose or endorse the plastic surgery industry as a whole, but rather the spectacle of it through the lens of Dr. Miami.

★★★★ 4/5 Stars

They Call Me Dr. Miami is an extremely entertaining documentary.

The documentary delves into critiques of cosmetic surgery and beauty obsession.

The film examines how Salzhauer grapples with the reality of selfie culture, backlash to his controversial videos (…), all while balancing his roles as a father of five, and a conservative Orthodox Jew who observes the Sabbath.

They Call Me Dr. Miami is a fun and captivating commentary on our looks-obsessed society and selfie culture.