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Naomi Osaka (TV Miniseries)

Naomi Osaka

2021

Garrett Bradley

Documentary, Self: Naomi Osaka

5.8

158

TV Series. Documentary 3 episodes. Featuring unprecedented access to Osaka, the documentary follows her pivotal year, from the U.S. Open in August 2019 and on tour, as she plays in each of the Grand Slams and prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

	Author	Review
United States	Lovia Gyarkye The Hollywood Reporter	"[It’s a pleasure] to see the director successfully apply her sensitive eye and impressionistic style to Osaka (...) A poetic, nimble and poignant portrait of young adulthood."	POS
United States	Jen Chaney Vulture	"Bradley is sensitive to the minutiae of Osaka’s life. Moments that might seem small become significant through the filmmaker’s lens"	POS
United Kingdom	Rebecca Nicholson The Guardian	"It is about loneliness and self-discovery as much as it is about tennis, and it is beautifully done (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jude Dry IndieWire	"The Osaka we see on court is much more dynamic and exciting than the one we get onscreen in Garrett Bradley's three-part series."	NEU
United States	Radhika Menon Paste Magazine	"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."	POS
United States	Daniel Hart Ready Steady Cut	"An intimate, mesmerising insight of a star athlete (...) This series is important; not only does it embody the rise of a star, it emphasizes the struggles of a child platforming in an adult world (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Caroline Framke Variety	"[It] is lyrical and meticulously composed (...) Not quite a tell-all, not quite an impressionistic portrait, 'Naomi Osaka' floats somewhere in between"	NEU
United States	Roxana Hadadi rogerebert.com	"An informative, rewarding portrait that resists hagiography in earnestly presenting a young woman in progress (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"[It] works best as a window into the demands placed on young athletes, and the pressures (...) that go with it. On that level alone it's a winner, despite a few faults."	POS
United States	Joel Keller Decider	"You’ll get an idea what happens when fame comes to someone who is as introverted as Osaka is."	POS

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