Instead of a hagiography filled with kind words from old chums, boxer-turned-filmmaker Jay Bulger's documentary, Beware of Mr. Baker, revels in opportunities to present drummer Ginger Baker in all his asshole glory.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 4, 2024

A deceptively unconventional rock 'n' roll tale of drink, drugs, drums and ponies, Bulger's Beware of Mr. Baker saddens as much as it elates.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 25, 2019

As jaw-dropping as Ginger Baker's drumming is, the man himself is even more rattling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 17, 2018

The kind of august rogue who threatens to put his director in hospital and punches him in the face with a cane-and makes him like it.

| Aug 30, 2018

...essential viewing for classic rock fans and anyone who loves a good rogue of questionable moral character, undeniable talent and a road case full of excellent stories.

| Apr 30, 2018

What makes this an excellent music doc is the sadness that comes through the madness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2017

A cracking story, buzzily edited, this warts-and-warts portrait delivers an illuminating insight into recent rock history. Don't miss it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2017

An entertaining doc on the volatile but great jazz and rock drummer, the controversial London born Ginger Baker.

| Original Score: B | Dec 15, 2013

The constantly gripping film is adroitly assembled.

| May 18, 2013

With no preconceptions, I found this to be one of the films of the year - an extraordinary story about an even more astonishing talent.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 17, 2013

Bleakly entertaining, Beware of Mr Baker neither eulogises nor patronises its subject; one day (though possibly not soon), Baker may take it upon himself to say thanks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2013

It's a broadly forgiving portrait of an impossible, irascible talent, who seems to have treated life much like his instrument.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 16, 2013

We are always being told that books and movies have to have "sympathetic" lead characters - well, here's a documentary that does very well without one.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 16, 2013

An interesting character study interspersed with classic rock, jazz and Afrobeat clips. Nothing more, but certainly nothing less.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 16, 2013

Entertaining documentary about the notoriously cantankerous drummer...

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 16, 2013

It's all insanely enjoyable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 16, 2013

Searingly honest and ultimately deeply moving, this is a fascinating portrait of notoriously antisocial former Cream drummer Ginger Baker, now 73 and still raging.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 15, 2013

It's refreshing to watch a music doc, especially one with such intimate access to its subject, in which barely anyone is unreservedly polite about the person in question.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 14, 2013

A juicy slice of rock history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2013

A fascinating rockumentary that pays tribute to its subject's impressive musical odyssey, while illustrating the enormous emotional costs he's incurred along the way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2013