Sly

Sly (2023) is a 97-minute documentary portrait of Sylvester Stallone you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Thom Zimny, it hands Stallone the microphone and lets him trace the full arc — from a rough Brooklyn childhood and a partial facial paralysis he was born with, to the moment he typed out the Rocky script in three and a half days and refused to sell it unless he got to star.

The film pulls in an unusually candid roster of voices: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Sandra Bullock, Quentin Tarantino, and Jason Statham all weigh in, and their accounts don't always match Stallone's own version of events. That tension between myth and memory is where the documentary earns its keep.

What separates Sly from a standard career retrospective is the amount of time Stallone spends on the losses — the critical beatdowns, the personal breakdowns, the franchises that went wrong. The tagline says "meet the man behind the hero," and it mostly delivers on that. Stream Sly (2023) online on iFILM.