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- 2022
- TV-MA
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 44 m
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 44 m
Summary It follows John McEnroe as he finally tells his side of his storied career and performances on the court.
Directed By: Barney Douglas
Written By: Barney Douglas
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 44 m
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 44 m
McEnroe
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7.5
Summary It follows John McEnroe as he finally tells his side of his storied career and performances on the court.
Directed By: Barney Douglas
Written By: Barney Douglas
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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Barney Douglas’s doc about tennis maverick John McEnroe belongs to that rare handful of portraits that should find an audience far beyond just fans of the game itself. In this, it has a kinship with Asif Kapadia’s films Senna and Diego Maradona.
It’s an unabashed celebration of a maverick talent, with all the highlights you’d expect from an extraordinary career.
In the autobiographical documentary McEnroe... we’re reminded of McEnroe’s dominance on the court — as well as the antics that earned him a reputation as a brat who polarized the tennis world.
There’s a lot more here for tennis fans than you get in average sports documentaries.
The documentary doesn’t give the sense of McEnroe as a person that Douglas’s film does. But it gives a rather astonishing sense of him as a player. With all due respect to those other McEnroe guises, that’s the one that matters.
The rock’n’roll bad boy of tennis is watchably if uncritically celebrated in this documentary portrait by Barney Douglas; it is a film that leaves unsolved the riddle, if it is a riddle, of John McEnroe’s confrontational on-court personality.
The talking heads aren’t particularly revealing and there are some strange filmmaking choices. But McEnroe makes for incredibly likeable company and the tennis, as ever, remains sublime.
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Production Company
Sylver Entertainment
Release Date Sep 2, 2022
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating TV-MA
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Awards
Sports Emmy Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 2 Nominations
PGA Awards
• 1 Nomination
