Doesn't just inform, it entertains as well. It dazzles the eyes with both the beauty and violence of Steadman's paintings but of Paul's imagination.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2021

Steadman and this film glibly admit that everything is getting worse and dying. But that's no excuse for us not to rage with all we have to make things better.

| Mar 4, 2021

Steadman's work is as sharp and witty as ever: a fact which shines throughout this heartfelt doc.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

Ralph Steadman deserves a better documentary than "For No Good Reason," a serviceable but shallow look into his life and artistic process.

| Aug 22, 2018

The process of creating a painting isn't as automatically intertesting as, say, that of making a film, but...the technical and artistic inspirations that fuel an artist can sometimes be as fascinating as the finished work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2014

Despite intending to expand upon Steadman's output and impact, the documentary boils the importance of his oeuvre down to the obvious.

Full Review | Oct 30, 2014

It's satisfying that the film exists, as an overdue tribute to an artist who can be appreciated even by those with limited patience for Thompson's posturing prose.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2014

Steadman's illustrations could burst with baroque details, but one thing you would never call them is "busy." They had a focus, a mission, that "For No Good Reason" often lacks.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 10, 2014

[For No Good Reason] paints a strong portrait of the illustrator through archival footage, photography, and long discussions with Steadman about his artistic process.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Aug 15, 2014

A film for admirers of artist Ralph Steadman, people whose politics align with Steadman's politics and the most devoted followers of Steadman's celebrity fan, Johnny Depp.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 11, 2014

It's most compelling when the focus is on Steadman, allowing him to describe his feelings about fame and his artistic process - or perhaps more accurately, the method to his madness.

| Jun 30, 2014

The movie always circles back to Thompson, as if Steadman were a tetherball attached to the writer. In this way, Paul doesn't quite justify the need for a feature film about his subject (as opposed to, say, a profile segment on '60 Minutes').

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 20, 2014

Though friendly and humorous in his jaunty nautical cap, Steadman seems reluctant to give much away about his private life. Fortunately his work - scabrous, anarchic and utterly merciless - more than speaks for itself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2014

Instead of embracing the chaotic discovery that Steadman personifies, the film ends up being merely a paint-by-numbers.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 12, 2014

Paul's frenetic assemblage strives in vain for the cinematic equivalent of Steadman's splotchy urgency.

| Jun 6, 2014

The film has some slow spots; at times, it reaches pretention, but overall it is an interesting portrait of a contradictory individual who is proud of his work, yet questions whether or not it had any impact on the world.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2014

Meet Ralph Steadman and his nightmare visions of a world in pain, revealed in a mesmerizing documentary.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 5, 2014

For 89 madcap minutes, Paul and interviewer Johnny Depp conduct a surface-level whistle-stop tour of the artist's life, never once outstaying our curiosity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2014

The artist often doesn't even get to take center stage in his own movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 5, 2014

Even if we don't quite get to know the man, the visionary violence of Steadman's acid pen emerges to vivid effect, partly though Kevin Richards's animations, and despite Depp's sometimes over-eager respect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 1, 2014