André Is an Idiot
2025 American documentary film
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André Is an Idiot is a 2025 American documentary film by Tony Benna.[2] The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and was given a limited theatrical release on March 6, 2026, by Joint Venture.
Ben Cotner
Stelio Kitrilakis
André Ricciardi
Tory Tunnell
| André Is an Idiot | |
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Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Tony Benna |
| Produced by | Joshua Altman Ben Cotner Stelio Kitrilakis André Ricciardi Tory Tunnell |
| Starring | André Ricciardi |
| Cinematography | Ethan Indorf |
| Edited by | Tony Benna Parker Laramie |
| Music by | Dan Deacon |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Joint Venture |
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Running time | 89 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Summary
It explores the story of André Ricciardi, who considers himself an idiot for not getting a colonoscopy and gets a terminal cancer diagnosis.[3]
Release
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2025.[4] The film had a limited theatrical release in the United States on March 6, 2026, by Joint Venture.[5] The film was released a month early in the United Kingdom by Dogwoof.[6]
Reception
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of 60 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "A public service announcement with a disarming sense of humor, André is an Idiot brings a light touch to a morbid topic and is all the more powerful for it."[7] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 78 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[8]
Peter Howell of the Toronto Star considers the film one of his 10 favorite films from the Sundance Film Festival.[9] Leslie Felperin of The Guardian rated the film four out of five and called it "a riotously funny, painfully honest film about facing death."[10]
Accolades
It won the Audience Award and the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award in the US Documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival.[11][12]