John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection 2018 Watch Full Movie in HD

Film School Rejects

...proving that sport itself can be fundamentally cinematic and ripe with psychological drama when documented in a manner outside of the traditional systems designed for live or television viewing.

December 23, 2018

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San Diego Reader

In the end, [Faraut] doesn't have quite enough of anything for a feature.

August 31, 2018

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The Sunday Age

The only tennis documentary to set Sonic Youth's cyberpunk ode The Sprawl to a technique montage, Julien Faraut's wonderfully original film mixes film theory, cryptic analysis, and multiple break(ing) points to form a coolly intoxicating examination.

February 10, 2019

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indieWire

"John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection" is a sports documentary unlike any other, a beguiling and delightful piece of visionary non-fiction that uses its namesake to investigate the ontological nature of watching tennis.

August 23, 2018

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews

It's a different kind of sports film that caught my attention despite not being a tennis fan.

February 04, 2019

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FILMINK (Australia)

...at times the film feels like every character in a Wes Anderson movie got up and made a documentary on tennis.

February 10, 2019

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Capital Times (Madison, WI)

There's a strange allure to the film, how it whimsically and playfully approaches one of the greatest tennis players to play the game from such unexpected angles.

November 14, 2018

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Jaredmobarak.com

Faraut is less interested in how cinema affects tennis than how they overlap. He's searching for the line separating reality from performance, [proving] one doesn't exist.

December 01, 2018

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New Yorker

Regardless of his enemy, the main event was McEnroe vs. McEnroe, in an unresolvable tiebreak of body and soul. There had been nothing like it, on public view, since the heyday of James Dean.

August 27, 2018

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Boston Globe

All credit to Faurat for that ability to forge coherence out of such wildly disparate materials.

November 09, 2018

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Los Angeles Times

"Perfection" at times risks being too pleased with itself for its own good, but its one-of-a-kind credentials are never in doubt.

August 30, 2018

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San Francisco Chronicle

McEnroe, Faraut asserts, was "a man who played on the edge of his senses." His film brings that home.

August 29, 2018

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