The tone of this film mirrors Roger Federer as a player and human being: elegant, classy, detached and cool.

| Jul 13, 2024

Twelve Final Days won't appeal to audiences unfamiliar with tennis. But those who are familiar with the sport are also likely to be fans of Federer's.

| Jul 8, 2024

This is probably going to mean a lot to anyone who watched and followed Federer’s entire career, but nothing jumped off the screen for me.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 5, 2024

Those looking for a Lleyton Hewitt-to-Hubert Hurkacz lookback at the Swiss master’s lows and many highs are going to be sorely disappointed, the small snatches of archival footage mainly there to compare and contrast early and late-career Federer.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 30, 2024

If you’re a big Federer fan, Federer: Twelve Final Days is surely going to get you sentimental and maybe even entertain you, but it’s not going to give the long-awaited window into the man’s soul that you might’ve hoped for.

| Jun 26, 2024

There have been plenty of documentaries and shows already about Roger Federer and, no doubt, there will be more to come. This short goodbye justifies its place among them.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2024

Like its subject, the film is not particularly revolutionary or groundbreaking in its approach. But again, like its subject, it is a work of unmistakable quality and class.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 24, 2024

Federer: The Last Twelve Days is much less emotional, moving, and powerful than what a documentary with privileged, intimate access to one of the best athletes of the last quarter of a century promised. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 24, 2024

Federer was unique at being: mild. It’s why so many crying dads love him. On screen this doesn’t play so well.

| Jun 24, 2024

A behind-the-scenes documentary that is really just an 88-minute rhapsody... enjoyable enough, if you revere the lachrymose tennis icon, but still too adoring by half.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 24, 2024

If you’re new to the world of tennis and want to learn what made Federer so special, you might have better luck watching a compilation of his highlights on YouTube.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 24, 2024

Twelve Final Days has a marked lack of curiosity about the man beneath the accolades. Tennis lovers will revel in the footage of the player at his best, but the film as a whole offers only basic shots.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 24, 2024

Seamlessly, Roger’s earliest tennis days, notable matches, and his last one are woven through this tribute.

| Jun 21, 2024

You won’t get much of a sense of what made Roger Federer one of the greatest tennis players in history from watching this documentary, although it does give his legions of fans a chance to salute his legacy.

| Jun 21, 2024

It doesn't lean into the idolatry aspect to make it about celebrity or the tennis itself to make it about the sport. TWELVE FINAL DAYS is just a final press tour. [It's] solely for the fans.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 21, 2024

If you're interested in the sport and in him, he is clearly a remarkable and admirable sportsman, then this is a very loving tribute. It isn't anything other than that.

| Jun 21, 2024

Roger Federer may have been one of the best tennis players of all time, if not the best, but as a documentary subject, he’s surprisingly dull.

| Jun 21, 2024

With the international press and his management team nearly always on the sidelines, there’s little privacy to get personal. One of the more vulnerable moments the film manages to capture comes when Federer wears the wrong dress shirt to a photo call.

| Jun 21, 2024

Though that closing match is a bit of a fizzer, the genuine sorrow it elicits from the most stoic blokes in tennis will deeply resonate with true devotees of the game.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2024

Less a career overview than a lengthy valediction, “Twelve Final Days” considers what is meant when a professional athlete has to stare into the post-career abyss. Mr. Federer seems more likely than most not to go blind.

| Jun 20, 2024