91 Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman The movie also captures Thompson's tragedy: the haze of drugs and bad writing that consumed him for no less than his last 30 years. Read full review
90 The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt A biographical documentary doesn't get any better than this. Read full review
88 Rolling Stone | Peter Travers Johnny Depp, who paid for the 2005 funeral in which Thompson's ashes were fired out of a cannon, narrates with just the right mix of awe and impertinence. Read full review
88 Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert It leaves you wondering, how was it that so many people liked this man who does not seem to have liked himself? Read full review