It's clear that the filmmakers of What's My Name: Muhammad Ali didn't want Ali's experiences as a husband and father to be a distraction from the main story, which is to show Ali's legacy as an influential and unforgettable public figure.

| Jul 12, 2020

The first half of the documentary moves with an engaging efficiency, bulldozing through the arc of Ali being unbeatable only to slowly reveal the cracks in his composure.

| Jan 18, 2020

It's great entertainment and a reminder that Ali came at just the right time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2019

Know My Name: Muhammad Ali is a huge time commitment, but anyone with even a passing interest in Ali's legendary career and life will learn something new watching it.

| Nov 20, 2019

Seeing Ali in a physical fight with himself as he battles Parkinson's Disease and the damage wrought by the ring is a jarring but necessary epilogue to his story.

| Original Score: A | Nov 20, 2019

Fuqua obligingly banishes the memory of Will Smith's Ali biopic and aspires to the poetry of When We Were Kings, Leon Gast's Oscar-winning 1996 documentary about Ali and George Foreman's Rumble in the Jungle.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2019

The reason What's My Name transcends that flatness is the vividness of Ali's own voice and undeniable charisma.

| Nov 8, 2019

Fuqua has an obvious affinity for the sport, skilfully blending fight footage with music or Ali's poetry, and also extracting full value from some superb black and still photographs taken ringside.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2019

"What's My Name" may not be the full, in-depth analysis of Muhammad Ali we have been waiting for. But nonetheless it is an exciting document of what made him an enduring force in the public consciousness.

| May 29, 2019

Watching Muhammad Ali talk could be just as fun and engrossing as watching him fight, and often more so-each contributed equally to his celebrity.

| Original Score: B+ | May 15, 2019

What's My Name: Muhammad Ali, comes as close as any film yet made to capturing that vast complexity of the man.

| May 15, 2019

What's My Name doesn't delve into its subject's personal life, focusing only on his career in the ring and his activism outside of it. That's more than enough to easily fill its extended running time.

| Original Score: A- | May 14, 2019

He was, indeed, the greatest, and while "What's My Name" clearly portrays those qualities, as constructed, it's merely pretty good.

| May 14, 2019

For the content at hand, What's My Name: Muhammad Ali serves as a solid introduction.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 14, 2019

The greatness of [it] is that if you're young and you know very little of Muhammad Ali, this would be the perfect place to start learning about him - but if you remember Ali in his prime and you're well-versed in his history, it's STILL a must-see...

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 11, 2019

Fuqua's stirring new documentary almost exclusively uses archival footage of the loquacious icon talking, boasting, shouting, and jiving to trace the arc of his one-of-a-kind career which was so incident-packed that it's broken into two parts.

| Original Score: B | May 9, 2019

It's like [Muhammad Ali] reaching back from the grave to remind us how brash and brave he was. Illuminating.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 6, 2019

Antoine Fuqua's two-part documentary... provides a necessary, if nominal summary of the fighter's life and career.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 1, 2019

What's My Name showcases Ali's gorgeous arrogance.

| Apr 29, 2019

An idealized but vivid and fascinating portrait of a career.

| Apr 29, 2019