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Critics Consensus: For No Good Reason is a solid but surface-level look at gonzo artist Ralph Steadman's artistry and eccentricities.
Critic Consensus: For No Good Reason is a solid but surface-level look at gonzo artist Ralph Steadman's artistry and eccentricities.
All Critics (61) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (23)
Meet Ralph Steadman and his nightmare visions of a world in pain, revealed in a mesmerizing documentary.
Paul struggles to contain Steadman's profligate energies in 90 minutes, and the waning presence of Johnny Depp, loitering between poor career choices to pull on a cigarillo and point at pictures, can't give it shape.
The film makes it clear that not only was Steadman perfect for Thompson's work (and a big part of his success), his work stands on its own artistically.
Giving an overlooked luminary his due is reason enough for "For No Good Reason."
As wonderful as it is to watch the man work, and to review many of the startling images he created over the years, the film has its dead spots.
This is most worthwhile for its scenes of Steadman at work, flinging ink all over the place and turning the splatter marks into his signature grotesques.
Steadman's work is as sharp and witty as ever: a fact which shines throughout this heartfelt doc.
Ralph Steadman deserves a better documentary than "For No Good Reason," a serviceable but shallow look into his life and artistic process.
The process of creating a painting isn't as automatically intertesting as, say, that of making a film, but...the technical and artistic inspirations that fuel an artist can sometimes be as fascinating as the finished work.
Despite intending to expand upon Steadman's output and impact, the documentary boils the importance of his oeuvre down to the obvious.
It's satisfying that the film exists, as an overdue tribute to an artist who can be appreciated even by those with limited patience for Thompson's posturing prose.
Steadman's illustrations could burst with baroque details, but one thing you would never call them is "busy." They had a focus, a mission, that "For No Good Reason" often lacks.
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