The redeeming value of Tyson is its entrée into the mind of a wild man, a furious force of nature.

| Mar 22, 2021

Tyson is most a revelation onscreen when he's captured with his children.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

James Toback combines a vivid recapitulation of everything you think you know about "Iron Mike."

| Jun 18, 2020

Toback telegraphs his intent to out Tyson's mental health struggles through using split screens of Tyson's narration and overlapping recordings of the same Tyson testimony.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2020

A raw, riveting portrait of the rise and fall of a superstar as seen through his own eyes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 7, 2019

The knockout punches are delivered by Toback's incredible access, supreme editing choices and ability to let Tyson talk himself into a cul-de-sac.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2018

The result is a documentary that once again highlights that, of all sports, boxing is the one that cinema has been most successful in recording...

Full Review | May 15, 2018

Toback's "documentary" is a one-man show: Tyson is the only interview. But what prevents it from turning into hagiography is the subject's talent for devastating self-exposure.

| Dec 16, 2017

Compelling as Iron Mike is to listen to, it's hard to fault the filmmaker for not wanting to interrupt him.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2016

The greatest bout of Tyson's life was no singular opponent but him being an experimental pawn in the battle of nature versus nurture.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 7, 2015

Turns out Mike Tyson, lo and behold, isn't that interesting after all. He's an unreliable narrator, sure, but mostly he's just a grotesque cartoon of every athlete who never had to answer for anything as long as they were making other people money.

| Original Score: C | Jun 22, 2013

Something draws us near-perhaps [James] Toback's own fascination, at once self-serving and empathetic, with his soft-spoken protagonist.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Toback presumably wants us to see Tyson as a product of his times, but we can't really buy that.

| Aug 26, 2011

Boxing fans will be thrilled by Toback's film, filled as it is with multi-camera angles and behind-the-scenes footage of some of the greatest fights in the sports history.

| Aug 9, 2010

Whether or not the troubled Mike deserves our sympathy, is left up to the viewer.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 21, 2010

Toback's approach to Tyson pulls no punches. It is extraordinarily revealing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 19, 2009

Utterly absorbing and fascinating, Tyson captivates viewers for its 90 minutes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 30, 2009

Until I saw Tyson, I wouldn't have believed it possible to film a one-sided documentary that felt truthful and complete."

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 29, 2009

Tyson is indeed an intriguingly contradictory hulk, but he's far from the troubling Caliban Toback's own obsessions with athleticism and negritude make him out to be

| Aug 25, 2009