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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Time OutTime OutIt’s an unabashed celebration of a maverick talent, with all the highlights you’d expect from an extraordinary career.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperIn 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.
- 75RogerEbert.comMatt FagerholmRogerEbert.comMatt FagerholmThough the film initially promises to follow its subject into a dark night of the soul wherein he wrestles with demons, “McEnroe” is every bit as much a celebration of his legacy as a gifted bad boy.
- 70The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyThere’s a lot more here for tennis fans than you get in average sports documentaries.
- 63Boston GlobeMark FeeneyBoston GlobeMark FeeneyThe 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.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe 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.
- 60The Irish TimesTara BradyThe Irish TimesTara BradyAn engaging chronicle, nonetheless.