“The Imposter” is a picture that carries authentically trembling suspense, though it’s perfectly at ease dishing out nuggets of information gradually to perfect its atmospheric grip. It’s a riveting feature once the pieces of this true-crime case come together, but it’s not a perfect film, which seems like a letdown when taking into account the psychosis at hand. Wonderful and wonderfully frustrating, “The Imposter” is a documentary as strange as its subject; it’s equal parts repellent and irresistible, trying to make sense out of a missing persons case that consistently seeks to top itself in terms of revelations and procedural dead-ends. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com

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