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- 2021
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- 2021
- TV-14
- Netflix
Summary The documentary series directed by Garrett Bradley follows champion tennis player Naomi Osaka as juggles the pressures of competing as she trains for the Tokyo Olympics and reflects on her heritage.
- 2021
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 2021
- TV-14
- Netflix
Naomi Osaka
Season 1 Premiere: Jul 16, 2021
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3.9
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Summary The documentary series directed by Garrett Bradley follows champion tennis player Naomi Osaka as juggles the pressures of competing as she trains for the Tokyo Olympics and reflects on her heritage.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
76
85% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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While she has been personable in her previous press engagements, in the docuseries that bears her name, she is raw. ... It’s an intimate and voluntary peek inside of her brain—one that puts her anxieties and fears on display instead of running from them.
It’s an engrossing blend of contradictions – and Bradley’s calm and sensation-free film makes for an absorbing appetite-whetter ahead of Osaka’s return to centre court at the Olympics.
The docuseries could be called a portrait, its approach less informational than artistic. At the same time, out of its artfully quilted bits and pieces, its searching closeups and surrounding details, it leaves you feeling that you have come to know its subject, rather than merely know about her.
The resulting work is a poetic, nimble and poignant portrait of young adulthood.
A refreshingly quiet and intimate sports documentary, Naomi Osaka peels back the developing layers of the cultural phenomenon who became a household name in the United States after beating her idol Serena Williams at the 2018 U.S. Open.
An informative, rewarding portrait that resists hagiography in earnestly presenting a young woman in progress.
The narrative of “Naomi Osaka” comes in fits and starts, using previously aired interviews to fill gaps and glossing over transitions between coaches, brands and sponsorships without much further probing. Osaka’s personality shines through, but not much else. ... Not quite a tell-all, not quite an impressionistic portrait, “Naomi Osaka” floats somewhere in between with a cautious curiosity that does, at least, reflect its namesake.
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 User Ratings
3.9
30% Positive
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10% Mixed
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60% Negative
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Production Company:
- Film 45
- Uninterrupted
Initial Release Date: Jul 16, 2021
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
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Awards
PGA Awards
• 1 Nomination
