Robert Downey Sr., le père

A sweetly pitched — and appropriately unorthodox — tribute from a movie megastar son to his filmmaking legend father.

Downey Sr is a potent personality, delivering hilarious one-liners about his life and work with a rasping New York voice – very different from his son’s more questioning, ironic tone...

Shot in black and white, the chronicle of the avant garde, rebellious filmmaker’s life reflects the image of his old movies.

It's a Russian nesting doll of a bio-doc, a piece about family as much as it is filmmaking because the two are inextricable for its subject.

...not just a celebration of a nonconformist filmmaker’s life but inadvertently shines a light on how the man and his maverick offspring manage to save their own.

There’s beauty in watching Sr. watch dailies, his spirit clearly buoyed by artistic possibility. He’s a man who says, “Yes” to every idea, even if it doesn’t prove fruitful.

...settles into a comfortable rhythm as it chronologically bounces along Robert Downey Sr.'s filmography, highlighting his quirky sense of humor, acidic wit, and eye for oddball scenes.