Weekend Movie Forecast: The Soloist Vs. Tyson

Tyson might not the long-overdue Hollywood adaptation of the popular Nintendo game, but judging by the rave reviews, this documentary about the famous boxer might be even better than Punch Out: The 3D Imax Experience we've often dreamed out. Director James Toback uses home movies, film clips of fights, and TV interviews to confront the champ with himself, and the results may not be pretty. Peter Travers at Rolling Stone writes, "Tyson opens up like a man injected with truth serum. And hardly to his benefit. It's tough on the inspiration factor to listen to Tyson say he was suffering from an STD when he defeated Trevor Berbick in 1986 to become the youngest heavyweight champ ever, at the age of 20... This power punch to the gut is one of the best movies of any kind this year. But Tyson is going out as a documentary, a label that doesn't cut it for describing the overflow of ferocity and feeling on display."