Fresh
This sharp documentary tribute to Downey's bug-eyed, fulminating charisma - he was like a Nixon who'd let out his id - reveals the demons that drove him to fame, then dragged him down.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
2013 · 1h 27m · R
Documentary
Directed by
Seth Kramer
,
Daniel A. Miller
,
Jeremy Newberger
Overview
Long before O'Reilly and Beck, Morton Downey, Jr., was tearing up the talk-show format with his divisive populism. Between the fistfights, rabid audience, and Mort's cigarette smoke always "in your face," The Morton Downey Jr. Show was billed as "3-D television," "rock and roll without the music." Évocateur meditates on the hysteria that ended the '80s and ultimately its most notorious agitator.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The film does an excellent job of showing how hate-TV was molded in the image of snarling, chain-smoking, guest-berating Downey.
Rob Nelson, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
Assorted celebrities and Downey's producers offer some insights, but the movie dwells too long on a group of worshipful former audience members.
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Evocateur is never less than watchable. At the same time, you have to wonder who's going to watch it.
James Adams, Globe and Mail
Fresh
The movie, made by three former teenage fans of the show, is an odd mixture of admiration and repulsion; even his friends and former producers, interviewed for the camera, seemed mixed in their feelings for him.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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