Diego Maradona

"The director of Senna and Amy turns his gaze to Diego Maradona, the world’s best footballer in the 1980s, who was perpetually playing his way in and out of controversy. It’s a fascinating portrait of an artist’s rise and fall."

"The director of Senna and Amy turns his gaze to Diego Maradona, the world’s best footballer in the 1980s, who was perpetually playing his way in and out of controversy. It’s a fascinating portrait of an artist’s rise and fall."

"Delights at every turn."

"It's a heady, engrossing, indulgently sprawling profile of a modern athlete in all his glory and contradiction, but it's also a film that leaves you with more questions than it should."

"Asif Kapadia's doc has the football and the drugs - think 'Scarface' with screamers - but it's a surprisingly emotional ride too."

"As Signorini says: "Diego has had a life both tremendous and terrible." Kapadia's film does justice to both sides."

"This is filmmaking with the hand of God upon it."

"[I]t's like a 130-minute Match of the Day title sequence created by Sophocles."

"Asif Kapadia has put together an extraordinarily intimate account of [Diego Maradona's] rise and fall, enriched by grainy but graphic footage recording every phase of his life."

"It's impossible to conceive that the accomplished documentarian Asif Kapadia would deliver anything less than a rigorous, multifaceted and probing feature: with his latest, Diego Maradona, he does not disappoint."

"This film is a solidly made summary of his golden years, full of energy and swagger. But Maradona's colourful life story is richer and stranger, deeper and darker than the greatest-hits reel captured here."