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Borg McEnroe

2017

Janus Metz Pedersen

Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, Tuva Novotny ...

6.4

5,520

Drama Borg/McEnroe tells the story of the epic rivalry between Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) and his greatest adversary, the brash American John McEnroe (Shia LaBeouf), which came to a head during the 1980 Wimbledon Championships.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A sensitive double portrait (...) [It] shows how a single match can be made to feel like the world depends on it (...) LaBeouf and Gudnason give performances as good as you could want here"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"It’s not easy to turn these kind of details into a compelling piece of entertainment, and yet, Metz mostly succeeds, through a mix of raw energy (...) and oblique scripting"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Shia LaBeouf is a mad genius, but this tennis drama offers nothing else to love (...) If Metz’s film were as serious with its characters as it is with its tone (...) perhaps it could have amounted to more."	NEU
United States	Kevin Jagernauth The Playlist	"The drama is never as electrifying as the titular showdown (...) 'Borg/McEnroe' shines a light on the sacrifices necessary to achieve greatness. It’s just a shame that the movie itself doesn’t have the same ambition."	NEU
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"'Borg/McEnroe' fails to turn its title characters into three-dimensional people, leaning into their public personas instead of sketching in the details that would make them feel genuine."	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] fails to create drama (...) So what’s the life lesson here? What’s the point? (...) The sweatband remains dry (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"[It] is a love-all crowdpleaser for the most part (...) An arresting performance from lookalike Sverrir Gudnason (...) [It] is more nuanced and sure-footed when it comes to its depiction of its Swedish hero"	POS

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