Let's begin this review of "Borg Vs. McEnroe" with a huge spoiler alert. The final score of the 1980 Wimbledon men's final between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe, which takes up the climactic last third ...
Like last year's "Battle of the Sexes," "Borg vs McEnroe" uses a famous tennis match of yesteryear to try getting at a deeper meaning. In this case, it's not gender equality, but rather the roots -- ...
The first grass-court clash between these archrivals—operating artfully at opposite extremes of the emotional and style spectrum—earns a lasting place as one of the most dramatic major finals of the ...
“You’re McEnroe with me and you’re Borg with everyone else,” said my wife, while we watched Borg vs. McEnroe, a 2018 Shia LaBeouf vehicle about the lives of two star tennis players who were apparently ...
Casting Shia LaBeouf as tennis bad boy John McEnroe is something of a self-reflexive gesture: Here are two men whose erratic, volatile public personae have eclipsed their respective talents, and whose ...
It’s the summer of 1980, and you’re in the crowd at Wimbledon. Do you remember the cheers? Björn Borg’s luscious locks and John McEnroe’s ferocity? Do you remember who won? Of course you don’t. Nor ...
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Shia LaBeouf makes art out of rage, which is somewhat fitting for an actor whose art has inspired irrational hatred. It’s baffling that fanboys and internet shouters once surveyed the wretched ...
CANNES — Stellan Skarsgård (“Nymphomaniac”) and up-and-comer Sverrir Gudnason (“Monica Z”) will star opposite Shia LaBeouf (“American Honey”) in “Borg vs McEnroe” directed by popular Danish helmer ...
In composing a Top 10 list of the most memorable Wimbledon matches of the Open Era, the No. 1 was no surprise: the 2008 final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. But filling out the rest of the ...
Casting notorious hothead Shia LaBeouf as notorious hothead John McEnroe was admittedly an inspired choice. It’s the first one, last one, only one that "Borg vs. McEnroe" makes. Everything else in ...