David Arquette is a disarming character: a relentless enthusiast who leads a pampered lifestyle but endures extreme humiliation in pursuit of his wrestling dream.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2025

What is most impressive about You Cannot Kill David Arquette is not the physicality of the matter, but rather the emotional and mental. The directors have the strange ability to make everything that should cause embarrassment become authentic and exciting

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 30, 2022

It may be tempting to view the entire movie as nothing more than a vanity project. Certainly there are elements of that which are hard to get around. But reducing it to such a linear reading means missing its biggest strengths.

| Aug 20, 2022

"You Cannot Kill David Arquette" is a film that’s designed for a certain niche audience, but if you're in that niche (and I am), I suspect you're going to love it.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 14, 2022

It is, in equal measure, a rousing sports-drama narrative and pure bells-&-whistles; a study in struggle and pain to achieve a personal goal and managed spectacle in the name of putting on a great show.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2022

Despite an ending that hints at triumph, its clear that there is a far more personal journey that this film should have focused on... (you) hope that he works out his issues, so that this is a new chapter rather than an epitaph.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 17, 2022

Hard to watch, but utterly compelling.

| Jun 30, 2021

It's a story of personal redemption that never quite feels fulfilled, but Arquette's directness and eagerness to set things right, if only in his own mind, is compelling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2021

Although the film shies away from delving too deeply into the star's physical and mental health issues, You Cannot Kill David Arquette delivers as dirty, feel-good fun; a fist-pumping anthem to the underdog.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2021

The film never really works as profile or provocation.

| Dec 28, 2020

Many of Arquette's difficulties seem manufactured resulting in a climax that's predictable and anti-climactic.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Nov 27, 2020

All that's really needed to understand Arquette's motivations are the words of his brother, Richmond: "David wants love"... For all its bravado and mystique, what's most striking about You Cannot Kill David Arquette are these simple truths.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 23, 2020

By the end of this documentary, you cannot dislike David Arquette.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2020

I can't help thinking that a real documentary could be made about David Arquette's midlife crisis and this isn't it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 19, 2020

Intimate, passionate, and unexpectedly harrowing, You Cannot Kill David Arquette offers a peek behind the curtain to both an enigmatic man and a misunderstood sport.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2020

You Cannot Kill David Arquette makes its case as one of the better documentaries in the wrestling category.

| Nov 15, 2020

Regardless of the extent to which it might be scripted, the enjoyability factor is appropriately fairly high.

| Original Score: B | Oct 9, 2020

I was 100% into this from start to finish and by the end I just want David Arquette to be happy.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 28, 2020

Real, completely fiction, or some sort of elaborate half-breed hoax like Joaquin Phoenix in I'm Not There, the experience of watching You Cannot Kill David Arquette is an entirely perplexing one.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 13, 2020

If there is a main strength to this documentary, it's that it will appeal to wrestling fans and those seeking some sort of redemption in their lives alike.

| Sep 12, 2020