"RIVETING FROM START TO FINISH."
- The Hollywood Reporter
"THIS PULL-NO –PUNCHES PORTRAIT SHOCKS AND AMUSES WITH EQUAL FREQUENCY."
- New York Times
"REMORSELESSLY ENTERTAINING"
- New York Magazine
"CRITIC’S CHOICE. This pull-no-punches portrait shocks and amuses with equal frequency."
- Jeanette Catsoulis, NY Times
"IT’S A ¬RIVETING OEDIPAL TRAGEDY"
- David Edelstein, New York
"RIVETING"
- Amy Nicholson, LA Times
"AN IMPRESSIVE FEAT"
- Bruce Bennett, Wall Street Journal
"RIVETING FROM START TO FINISH."
- Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
"A FASCINATING LOOK AT AN ALMOST FRIGHTENINGLY CHARISMATIC FIGURE."
- Kyle Smith, NY Post
"A FUNNY, ARRESTING DOC. The story is a fascinating, hilarious one, well told."
- Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice
"FASCINATING."
- Andrew O’Hehir, Salon
"ALWAYS ABSORBING."
- Keith Uhlich, Time Out NY
"IT IS ALL ENTERTAINING."
- Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
"A MUCH DESERVED FIVE STARS. It looks at the talk-show host and never blinks."
- Terra King, The Examiner
"Evocateur is a fascinating, unsettling look at how people with a big enough platform can monetize outrage."
- Los Angeles Times
"The story is a fascinating, hilarious one, well told."
- Village Voice
"The film is like his life: scabrous, upsetting, kind of moving, funny as hell, alive with hints of how we've become what we are."
- Village Voice
"REMORSELESSLY ENTERTAINING"
- Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine
"PROBING and HILARIOUS"
- Jason Apuzzo, The Huffington Post
"Ridiculously entertaining"
- Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal International
"A provocative look at the making of a media machine."
- Brian Geldin, Christian Science Monitor
"TOO OUTRAGEOUS TO BELIEVE. As blistering and half-cocked as its subject"
- Eric Hynes, The Village Voice
"Promises to revive Downey for a generation that never heard of him."
- New York Post
"As blistering and half-cocked as its subject"
- The Village Voice
"An impressive feat"
- Bruce Bennett, The Wall Street Journal
"A RIDICULOUSLY ENTERTAINING entertaining biopic"
- Film Journal International
"A FASCINATING and ROLLICKING documentary"
- Leah Rozen, The Wrap
"Absorbing doc...with a heathenish affection of which the Mouth himself would surely approve"
- Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
"The sleaze-filled celebration he deserves...you hate yourself for not looking away"
- Indiewire
