David Farrier & Dylan Reeve, Tickled!

Down the rabbit hole! That is one sensation provoked by Tickled!, David Farrier and Dylan Reeve’s astonishing documentary about what happened when these New Zealanders decided to profile an LA based contest for “competitive endurance tickling” for young men aged 18 to 23. Lawsuits! Threats! Homophobic attacks! Utter weirdness! All of which makes the revelatory Tickled! a great real-life detective story and easily among the year’s best documentaries.

•