A postcard from another land, a stimulating … look back at the last world-famous American reporter and his times.

Kelly Vance, East Express Bay

Richard Dewey’s revved-up bio documentary…is a sprightly look at what made the reporter-trained Wolfe into the insider’s outsider, how he made the leap to explicating — in supercharged, acrobatic sentences — our fast-changing, roving world of cliques, castes and subgroups

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

[An] engaging documentary portrait of writer Tom Wolfe

Godfrey Cheshire, RogerEbert.com

It’s all here: the origin myth of the 50-page “masterpiece” about custom cars that he typed up over nine hours for Esquire … his transformative portrayal of test pilots in “The Right Stuff”; and, of course, the white suit that served as his “suit of armor”

Ron Charles, Washington Post

Does a terrific job of conveying the inexhaustible energy of Wolfe and his prose

Ron Charles, Washington Post

A wonderfully illuminating and entertaining look at the late, great iconoclast.

Anne Brodie, What She Said

Tom Wolfe is having a moment.

Airmail

The documentary reminds audiences that Wolfe inspired generations of writers — including Michael Lewis, Tom Junod, and The New Yorker's Emily Witt, all of whom appear in the film — and transports viewers to a time when writers were among the most famous people on the planet.

Sirena He, Esquire

The breezy Radical Wolfe is the documentary that’s the most fun this year, even though its subtext is quite serious.

National Review, National Review