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Diego Maradona
A (INDIA)
2019
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Diego Maradona
Positive Reviews
61
Negative reviews
11
Average Rating
3.7
/5
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3.8
Director Asif Kapadia, who also made the Ayrton Senna and Amy Winehouse documentaries, lets the familiar story of a gifted kid who follows early succe ..
Rogerebert
3.0
But Kapadia doesnt force the movie to cover every fine detail when the saga has a natural end point.
Indie Wire
4.5
Its a heady, engrossing, indulgently sprawling profile of a modern athlete in all his glory and contradiction, but its also a film that leaves you wit ..
Variety
4.0
The picture is clear: hes a man on the pitch, a wide eyed child off it.
Time Out
4.0
A head spinning montage of sights (excruciating ankle injuries) and sounds (Pel declaring that his spiritual successor isnt psychologically prepared y ..
The Guardian
4.0
ts like a 130 minute Match of the Day title sequence created by Sophocles.
The Guardian
4.5
Kapadias film, precision made by the same technical team behind Amy and Senna, soars far above that attempt to define the footballer, often referred t ..
Screen Daily
4.5
Asif Kapadia presents this sequence of events without passing judgement while making sure Maradona doesnt come across as a saint either.
ETimes (TOI)
1.5
For soccer fans, Diego Maradona offers a feast of treats: match winning goals, savage tackles, ferocious training sessions, rowdy post match celebrati ..
The Hollywood Reporter
4.5
You dont need to know much about soccer to get caught up in Diego Maradona, a propulsive archival documentary on the celebrated and infamous Argentine ..
The New York Times
4.5
Though a tad overlong at two hours plus even as it condenses its framing to the footballers 1980s stint in Naples, Italy Kapadias handling of Maradona ..
4.5
Its all here: the great games, goals and great scandals. It teems with life and is unlike most biopics about a sports legend. That is, it actually del ..
The Globe And Mail
3.5
Asif Kapadia presents this sequence of events without passing judgement while making sure Maradona doesnt come across as a saint either.
1.5
It worked for a number of reasons...even a newbie like me was able to understand...we do see why he says that football is a game of deceit.
You Tube
4.0
As Signorini says: Diego has had a life both tremendous and terrible. Kapadias film does justice to both sides.
The Times
4.0
Kapadia has a gift for unlocking these outsiders who attempt to outrun the system.
The Times
3.0
Some of the footage is revealing, but Kapadias portrait lacks variety (there are only so many old video clips you can watch), and it is too long.
Radio Times
4.5
The iconic sportsman aptly encapsulated his feelings for the beautiful game when he asserted, When youre on the pitch, life goes away.
Hindustan Times
4.5
Asif Kapadia gives footballs flashiest figure the true crime treatment.
Hindustan Times
4.0
Asif Kapadia has put together an extraordinarily intimate account of rise and fall, enriched by grainy but graphic footage recording every phase of hi ..
Smh
4.0
Kapadia doesnt linger, either, on Maradonas time at Argentinian club Boca Juniors and then Barcelona.
Daily Mail
3.0
Which, like so much else here including a hugely clumsy last lap is not a good thing.
Daily Mail
4.5
Midnight Traveler marries the beautiful and the terrible, presenting a raw, poignant and eye opening depiction of the refugee experience and succeedin ..
Film Inquiry
4.5
With Kapadias films, you never get the sense that youre watching a highlights reel of familiar news headlines, so much as footage that only existed in ..
Film Inquiry
4.5
It doesnt have that same propulsive cinematic narrative that Senna or Amy had, but is no less fascinating because of it.
Flickering Myth
1.5
An overtly (and sometimes over) sympathetic documentary that is ambitious in its attempt to humanise the man behind the myths.
Bbc
4.5
The Dionysian frenzy of hero worship is well captured by the film, though it could use more footage from the field of play, where Maradona redefined w ..
New Yorker
4.0
remains as unknowable as a figure from ancient myth. None of this dents the appeal of a film that makes brilliant use of his terrible, doomed momentum ..
The Irish Times
4.0
The mercurial socialist told his Neapolitan supporters, just before a World Cup semi final between Argentina and Italy, Napoli non e Italia (Naples is ..
Standard
4.0
It doesnt lend itself so easily to a single focus (despite so many goals, he had just as much impact with assists and inspiring the team).
Standard
4.5
The big move made by the filmmaker in capturing the mercurial, maddening essence of Maradona is executed very early in the doco.
Herald Sun
3.0
The focus of the film, moreover, on what we dont know rather than what we do is a risk that doesnt quite pay off.
Hey U Guys
2.0
Kapadias tight focus and compelling viewpoint make Diego Maradona a must see for soccer fans, and certainly a biographical doc of interest to wider au ..
The Play List
4.0
Its blockbuster filmmaking, using salacious, dramatic talking heads, propulsive synthy beat driven music and frenetic editing to push through this epi ..
Cine Vue
5.0
What happens after the final whistle blows will leave you in agreement. And disbelief.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
3.0
Hero, villain, liar, cheat, champion, scoundrel: this hugely entertaining snorts and all biography reveals Maradona to be all these things and more.
Lw Lies
4.5
Maradona is a man whose story is full of such remarkable highs and lows, and who continues to mean so much to so many, that even Kapadias heady storyt ..
Abc
3.0
Kapadias approach using only archive footage, dubbed over with audio interview snippets is slick and compelling but never probes too deeply.
Ft
2.0
We are allowed the recollections in tranquillity of a perhaps wiser, sadder Diego. But were not allowed to watch him grow wiser and sadder.
Ft
4.0
Asif Kapadias evocative documentary uses period footage and thoughtful voiceovers to give us a more balanced picture of the great footballers career a ..
Independent Ie
4.0
Diego Maradona mainly focuses on the footballers turbulent years at Italian club Napoli.
Stuff
4.0
A great documentary that captures the lights and shadows of the Argentinean star.
3.0
Football is obviously central to the film, but that doesnt stop us detouring into the world of Italian crime families and the Falklands war.
The Arts Desk
2.0
Given the limitations of time, the film doesnt delve too deeply into his upbringing in the slums of Buenos Aires.
The Film Pie
4.0
Kapadias archive heavy approach turns up some gems and is great at putting you in Maradonas mind, but a unique character like this needs to be seen fr ..
One Room With A View
4.0
The footage Kapadia slices together makes it clear to see why Maradonas flaws were all too easy to overlook.
The Skinny
4.0
Advertising Unlike the previous two films, however, the spectre of death doesnt hang over this one.
The Indian Express
1.5
They unfurl banners that say, Hello Cholera Sufferers, depicting Naples as a godforsaken capital of diseased outcasts.
New Republic
4.5
Casual football fans will be impressed by the ambiguities of the Maradona, and the most addicted to the sport will end up enjoying it in good measure, ..
El Pais (Spain)
3.8
Kapadia, who won an Oscar for Amy, about Amy Winehouse, doesnt do that, preferring to keep the viewer firmly planted in the narrative hes crafted from ..
Ap News
4.0
Here its foregrounded, political, social, and consistently compelling.
Film Ireland
4.5
In short, this is gripping and heartbreaking as far as it goes, but it doesnt quite go far enough.
Spectator
4.5
Its awe inspiring and a testament as to what can be done in a documentary film with a compelling subject like Diego Maradona.
Battle Royale With Cheese
2.0
One doesnt feel surprised by any of it was the presence of Maradona himself on the production something a buzzkill Perhaps, but I wouldnt know.
The Film Experience
4.0
Its a cautionary tale that will endure as long as sports continue to exist.
The Gate
4.5
It uses the same techniques that made the directors earlier films so moving. The story unfolds at pace, with minimal narration and none of the talking ..
Gq Magazine
4.0
It is obvious that Diego Maradonas life is a gripping cautionary tale.
Ndtv
1.5
The most important thing is to go back to that unique moment of sports glory and personal ridicule in order to provide some perspective on that eterna ..
La Nación (Argentina)
5.0
Still, despite its frustrations, Sometimes Always Never is a pleasingly eccentric offering that will delight some.
Metro News
4.0
Combined with subtitles, this frenetic mix can be visually overwhelming dont sit in the front row.
Hot Press
4.0
The biggest feat of the documentary is the sensation of cinema verit, of always being close to the facts, with that mixture of chaos, fury, nakedness ..
4.0
Think Lionel Messi going to play for Southampton and youve got it.
The Digital Fix
4.5
And then theres Maradona, the star who has drowned in fame, addiction and power.
Awards Watch
3.5
Then theres the added pressure of being one of the worlds most skilled footballers.
VultureHound
1.5
Asif Kapadia presents a little inspired documentary so dazzled by the figure of the football player with little to add to the chaos and confusion of t ..
El Mundo (Spain)
4.0
A good documentary has a point of view, it cannot be simply archival footage.
Its Just Movies
4.0
Watching an accomplished performer is one of lifes greatest pleasures.
Boulder Weekly
4.5
As Kapadia illustrates in 130 minutes, the sunken (meme worthy) Maradona of today isnt the subject of Diego Maradona.
Arré
4.5
As such, all the archive footage has a winningly observational quality.
Hyperallergic
1.5
Kapadia struggles to find a new angle, despite having access to 500 hours of archive material much of it from the personal collection of Maradona and ..
Cineuropa
4.0
a wealth of astonishing never seen before footage, accompanied by a soundtrack as winning as the football
The Sunday People
4.5
Its a profoundly moving sequence, a bravura experiment in editing and storytelling thats proof positive not just of Kapadias skill as a craftsman but ..
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