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You Cannot Kill David Arquette

2020

David Darg, Price James

Documentary, Self: Courteney Cox, Patricia Arquette, Rosanna Arquette ...

6.5

211

Documentary Branded as the most hated man in wrestling after winning a highly controversial WCW World Heavyweight Championship in 2000, actor David Arquette attempts a rocky return to the sport that stalled his promising Hollywood career. Dangerously determined to redeem his reputation and reclaim his self-respect, Arquette will stop at nothing to earn his place in professional wrestling.

	Media	Author	Review
		Andrew Parker The Gate	"A thoughtful, entertaining, uplifting, and heartbreaking blending of the silly and sublime (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Steve Pond The Wrap	"A robust (albeit bloody) piece of entertainment. And it’s also a character study of a guy who’s revealing himself to us regardless of whether what we’re seeing is reality or construction."
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"If [it] has a theme, it’s the cleansing quality of pain (...) But the documentary also wants to be a narrative of triumph, and to that end it’s willing to go right where wrestling does: to a place where reality and fakery merge until you can’t tell the difference."
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[A] great new documentary (...) David Arquette has finally found the role of a lifetime."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A very odd, strained film, as theatrically faked as any wrestling bout (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Teo Bugbee The New York Times	"What’s fascinating is Arquette’s vulnerability, both emotionally and physically (...) a mythic tale out of a reject’s quest for redemption."
		Nick Allen rogerebert.com	“You Cannot Kill David Arquette” is a funny way to spend time with the energetic actor, but (...) It feels too often that the movie, and its title, is more meant for Arquette than it is for us (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"[An] uneven but frequently compelling documentary (...) the film mixes absurdity with sincerity, but always at the story’s centre is the ageing actor and his fragile psyche"

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