Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "This is Mike's show. And the ex-champ shows himself no mercy...[revealing] a tortured human being still struggling to understand his own flaws." 04/01/2009New York Times
"[P]owerful....Mr. Toback's film, partly because it restricts itself to Mr. Tyson's point of view, offers a rare and vivid study in the complexity of a single suffering, raging soul." 04/24/2009 Los Angeles Times
"The result is as gripping as a title fight and as mesmerizing as a conversation with a cobra..." 04/24/2009 Rolling Stone
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "You won't know what hit you after watching TYSON. This power punch to the gut is one of the best movies of any kind this year....A world-class exhibition of punch-drunk love." 04/30/2009 Wall Street Journal
"[T]errific....Iron Mike, having meted out epic suffering in the ring and other venues, seems to be a man who has suffered genuinely, even terribly, in the course of a life he never believed would last 40 years." 04/24/2009 Chicago Sun-Times
4 stars out of 4 -- "James Toback's TYSON is a documentary with no pretense of objectivity. Here is Mike Tyson's story in his own words, and it is surprisingly persuasive." 04/29/2009 Washington Post
"TYSON is a sort of guided tour through Mike Tyson's mind with the former prizefighter playing psychic usher....His is a deeply affecting story, as James Toback's often mesmerizing documentary reveals." 05/08/2009 | 
