Using archival footage (ranging from past interviews with people who worked with him to the director's own home movies) and rare audio interviews of the filmmaker explaining his own interpretations on his own works.

[1][2][3][4] The film is produced by Martin Laurent, and Jeremy Zelnik under the banners of Temps noir, Telemark, and Arte.

The website's consensus reads: "It might be fairly standard in terms of format, but Kubrick by Kubrick still offers the rare treat of hearing the famously taciturn filmmaker address his own work.

"[7] Owen Gleiberman, writing for Variety, said, "Everything in a Kubrick movie is delivered to you; every aspect of it is visually, logically, spatially, metaphysically built.

[6] The film won Best Arts Programming at the 49th International Emmy Awards in 2021.