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10
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6
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Critic Reviews
Jan 11, 2021
Season 1 Review:
A project that brings together an unusual serious-mindedness with as rare a gift of pacing. This series makes elegant and understated arguments about celebrity, race, and a seemingly unknowable public figure who’s long sat at their intersection. ... A clear-eyed appraisal of fame and its aftermath, “Tiger” is urgent and powerful viewing that withholds judgment, but nothing else.
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Jan 4, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The doc succeeds in its pacing, its storytelling, and its genuine capturing of such an only-in-America story: that desperate hunger to be (and remain) one of the most influential athletes and public figures of all time, and the ultimate reminder of how someone can have it all, and yet, never enough.
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Jan 8, 2021
Season 1 Review:
“Tiger” is a must-see documentary, whether you’re a hardcore golf fan or you wouldn’t know a sand wedge from a driver. Directors Matthew Heineman and Matthew Hamachek have pieced together the definitive filmed biography of Tiger Woods, even though Woods himself is conspicuous by his absence.
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Jan 8, 2021
Season 1 Review:
There's inevitably a salacious aspect to "Tiger," an HBO documentary about the rise and fall of Tiger Woods, since what happened in Vegas -- and elsewhere -- definitely didn't stay there. Overall, though, this engrossing two-part film captures the forces that shaped the golf legend, renewing appreciation for his staggering talent while waving a cautionary flag regarding how it was forged.
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The Daily BeastJan 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It’s refreshing to be reminded that an icon’s painful history is a part of their legacy, and that ignoring that does a disservice not only to what they endured and who they are, but to what they accomplished. It’s a delicate, tricky shot to take, but Tiger sinks the putt.
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Jan 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Tiger goes where it wants. While the film spends ample time revisiting its subject’s career highlights, it does its most revelatory work by zeroing in on the immense psychological toll it took for Eldrick Woods the prodigy to become Tiger, the phenom. ... If you’ve followed Woods’s career closely, Tiger doesn’t offer a ton of new material. ... But Tiger isn’t a redemption narrative so much as it is an emotional biopsy.
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TV Guide MagazineJan 4, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Searing two-part documentary. [4 - 17 Jan 2021, p.7]
RogerEbert.comJan 8, 2021
Jan 11, 2021
Season 1 Review:
What results is a two-part feature that lives in the shadow of much better sports documentaries exploring similar themes, like those in ESPN’s 30 for 30 series—including Ezra Edelman’s O.J.: Made in America and Stanley Nelson’s Michael Vick. Both of those films are rigorous case studies as well as investigations of how both race and fame operate in the U.S.
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The PlaylistJan 5, 2021
Season 1 Review:
While they do have one hand each tied behind their backs—they were unable to interview Elin and his influential mother Kultida; Woods gives the briefest sit-downs—it’s all too threadbare, one-note, or reliant on the aura of Woods’ story to carry our attention. Instead, Hamachek and Heineman’s docuseries “Tiger” misses the fairway for the rough.
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