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Giuliani Time
Metascore
61 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    75
    The result is fearlessly divisive and will no doubt play according to viewers' preexisting perceptions.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    75
    Giuliani Time has an ax to grind and wields it with dull-edged force.
  3. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    70
    While Keating's agenda is clearly hostile, and Giuliani's political committee is eagerly trying to do counter-propaganda, this isn't a campaign of character assassination or innuendo, but rather a dutifully constructed biographical film about a tremendously skilled prosecutor and politician.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    70
    After 9-11, a sick, scandalized lame-duck mayor became a national hero for simply keeping his composure on TV. Keating's film is a comet out of the past, but it's focused, if only circumstantially, on the future.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    70
    With the former mayor currently enjoying one of the rare second acts in American political life, Giuliani Time does a strong job of reminding us what the first one was like.
  6. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    60
    Giuliani Time energetically deflates one trumpeted myth after another about Giuliani's success at turning the city around from its doldrums in the 1970s.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    60
    In general, and in spite of its deft use of archival video clips and interviews, Giuliani Time offers a superficial reading of recent New York history, zeroing in on the headlines while often missing the context.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Jay Weissberg
    60
    Chock-a-block with incisive commentaries both pro and con, pic's sole drawback is its quick finish on that fateful September day without updating Rudy's subsequent rise and fall.
  9. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael Powell
    60
    It drags a bit and suffers from not enough Rudy.
  10. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    50
    While Giuliani Time offers a wealth of important information that many might have long forgotten, its impact is diluted by its heavily biased nature and lack of balance.
  11. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    50
    The trouble with Giuliani Time is that Keating, as a filmmaker, wants to give power to the people but in his every perception he takes it away from them.
  12. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    25
    The documentary Giuliani Time, which seeks to knock our former mayor off his pedestal, hits him with all the force of a wadded-up Kleenex. Those who hope Rudy Giuliani never returns to public life must be getting panicky.
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