We see the rise, fall, the seediness and the heart of Maradona, captured meticulously as a tortured love story between a man, a ball and his own mortality

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2024

Kapadia captures in a timeframe the genius, the greatness, and the religious furor Maradona was, and still is decades later.

| Feb 14, 2023

In this film, the athlete is a man of wild contradictions: there is Diego, the devoted son, hardworking and insecure; and Maradona, the character he invented to survive, arrogan, bullish, and on a downwards spiral.

| Dec 3, 2022

An absorbing portrayal of football's flawed genius.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2021

This absorbing, entertaining and well-constructed film may fail to expose the man for who he really is, but it certainly adds more allure to his legend.

| May 11, 2021

It's all here: the great games, goals and great scandals. It teems with life and is unlike most biopics about a sports legend. That is, it actually delivers a pungent sense of the atmosphere surrounding him.

| Dec 16, 2020

It may run slightly out of steam as it struggles to articulate an endpoint, but it's undoubtedly intriguing all the same.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 28, 2020

Kapadia constructs Maradona's matches in images the way Ernest Hemingway recounted bullfighting with words

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2020

Documentarian Asif Kapadia makes nary a wrong move as he weaves his way through and around the turbulent career of Diego Maradona.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2020

Documentary about the troubled soccer player has drug use.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2020

Diego Maradona incompletely captures the power of the story the man inspired and the fickle nature of mythmaking itself, even if the myth is all we are left with.

| Feb 27, 2020

Diego Maradona has set the bar. It's just unfortunate that this film didn't walk away with the Bafta gong for 'Best Documentary' before the final whistle.

| Feb 7, 2020

As with his previous two releases, Kapadia's film isn't simply about the subject himself, but of the way fame can destroy from within.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 6, 2020

Diego Maradona results in a more honest documentary. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 3, 2020

As an engrossing documentation of the price of fame, the ups and downs of a player who took a major gamble in Naples and went from God to devil in the local's eyes, Diego Maradona succeeds.

| Jan 16, 2020

Sports heroism is under the microscope, warts and all, in this riveting soccer documentary.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 17, 2019

With a scholarly eye towards research, Maradona is a richly textured, nuanced portrait not only of a titanic figure in sports, but the rise of a sportsman into a god.

| Oct 16, 2019

Kapadia stays close to Maradona: game footage is always shot from ground level, as if you're standing just behind the goal Maradona is trying to thump the ball into. It emphasises the casual brutality of the game, and the vast emotional stakes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2019

Over the course of the two-hour film, the camera rarely strays from its subject. We are made privy, albeit only briefly, to Maradona's impoverished childhood in a favela and his controversial 'Hand of God' goal...

| Oct 11, 2019

The tragedy of Maradona is that he was too simple to learn how to play anything other than soccer-and the sins for which he was punished, it turns out, were not really his, but ours.

| Oct 11, 2019