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Critic Reviews
Jul 14, 2021
Jul 21, 2021
Season 1 Review:
At times listening to Osaka grapple with her doubts and insecurities can be uncomfortable and intrusive, but that's revealing in its own way. Indeed, it's possible to envy all that she has and still feel sympathy for the sacrifices made in order to have it -- which, in terms of the points that "Naomi Osaka" intends to get across, is pretty much game, set and match.
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The GuardianJul 16, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It is more artistic and interior, and well worth watching in its entirety. At first, I thought it was slight, that it offered a good impression of depth but did not say very much. Now, I think it says more than it appears to. It is cleverly assembled, and gorgeously filmed, with a magnetic score by Devonté Hynes and Theodosia Roussos.
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Jul 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
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.
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Jul 14, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Bradley takes pains to define Osaka on her own terms outside the longest shadow in women’s tennis. ... Osaka’s constant acknowledgments of her own fallibility feel new, a change from the hypermanaged images and aggro intensity that have characterized some of the major tennis stars of the past.
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Jul 7, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Based on its first episode, Naomi Osaka is more ambitious [than many sports documentaries], taking a risk by portraying an extremely famous person with an exploratory and spontaneous approach. Flashbacks and on-camera interviews don’t come off as interjections or extras, but choruses singing essential notes of the crescendoing music Bradley has created in time with Osaka.
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Jul 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
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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