Break Point (2023)
Season 1 Premiere:
Jan 13, 2023
Metascore
Generally Favorable
67
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Generally Favorable
6.9
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Jan 10, 2024
80
If you’re a diehard tennis fan, Break Point has plenty of behind-the-scenes action to offer. If you’re a newbie to the sport, it’s the perfect introduction.
Jan 13, 2023
80
The editing in Break Point is so accomplished, the links between a player revealing their state of mind and then manifesting that state on court so adroit, that you’ll be rooting for people whose names you couldn’t spell within 20 minutes of having met them.
Jan 11, 2023
80
Netflix’s pleasingly watchable sports serial. ... “Break Point” makes a strong case for having cameras there to capture what thoughts play out in those moments, and helped convert a onetime serious watcher who hasn’t had time for the sport since Sharapova’s heyday into someone who will be seated for this year’s grand slams. For the filmmakers behind this project, that’s game, set and match.
Jan 12, 2023
70
Competitors are unguarded to an occasionally detrimental extreme, which makes Netflix’s Break Point seem immediately less revelatory than its predecessor. But the 10-episode series about the 2022 professional tennis season still has exceptional photography, a carefully curated selection of stars and enough on- and off-court drama to hook those with even casual curiosity.
Jan 13, 2023
60
The big dramas happen inside the players’ heads, and Break Point is an only intermittently successful attempt to capture them on screen.
Jan 26, 2023
50
Break Point only gives us this inside look at a player’s strategic thought process a few times over its first five episodes. For the most part, it instead relies on close-ups of players striking the ball, as majestic as they are repetitive, while dramatic music gooses the stakes.
Jan 10, 2024
40
A tendency towards self-indulgence and a futile fixation on American players results in a serious case of second-season syndrome. Rather than pull out an ace, this sequel ripples the net while the crowd sighs in frustration.
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Jan 22, 2023
9
This is the kind of documentary that strong tennis fans might find it difficult to enjoy, because they'll tend to pick apart details, have preconceptions about the players that appear, or have myriad opinions about who should or should not have been featured.
But as a documentary I think it was superbly edited, gives insight into the mental and physical struggles behind the scenes of professional tennis, and perhaps most importantly, has the potential to create new fans of the sport.
Jan 28, 2023
6
Netflix giving tennis the 'Drive to Survive' treatment. Sure it's curious to look at the private life of the prominent young players right now, but it gets tabloid-like very fast. There's good editing work in here, but the narrative formula already feels generic and cheap. Very addictive view, though.
