| 100 |
Christian Science Monitor Gloria Goodale
It's the best made-for-TV movie in years. |
| 90 |
Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz
A work as shapely as it is sprawling -- no small trick -- it renders the complex history that led to 9/11 with a ripping power that can at times feel overwhelming. |
| 80 |
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
Powerfully acted, artfully produced and shot like a truly riveting page-turner. |
| 80 |
Newsday Diane Werts
The filmmakers' assurance makes this miniseries play more like bang-up drama than fact-filled documentary. Yet their facts pass informative muster, and emotional validity, too. |
| 80 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
It is intensely serious, and seriously well done. |
| 75 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
On a simple quality drama level, it's the best network miniseries in several years. |
| 70 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
An unsparing, and at times hyperbolic, portrait of bureaucratic turf wars, buck passing and complacency. |
| 63 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
Too confused for a documentary, insufficiently dramatized for a movie, Path simply doesn't have the skill needed to support its intentions. |
| 63 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
Path sometimes feels like 24 downsized into The Office. [18 Sep 2006, p.39] |
| 40 |
Salon Heather Havrilesky
The six-hour film plays like a 9/11 version of "Syriana" or "Traffic," replete with ultra-close-ups and so much shaky, hand-held footage it can feel like being led around the world, half-drunk and half-blind. |
| 40 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
One could never call "The Path to 9/11 " poorly filmed and amateurishly acted. Just questionably written. |
| 40 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Earnest but scattered and a little plodding. |
| 33 |
Entertainment Weekly Ken Tucker
The results strain so hard to be objective and evenhanded that they're useless as drama. [8 Sep 2006, p.149] |
| 30 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
The miniseries asks a lot of patience on the part of viewers and gives too little in return. |
| 30 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
"The Path to 9/11" never quite arrives at narrative coherence and depth. |
| 20 |
Los Angeles Times Samantha Bonar
"The Path" is an irresponsible film, with its factual distortions wrapped in a really terrific package that lulls viewers into complacency, setting them up for the propaganda that is to follow. |
| 20 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
So much of the dialogue is just dull explanation, and so much of the action rehashes events that are already known. Worse, sometimes, it repeats itself. |
| 0 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
"Path" is the dullest, worst-shot TV movie since ABC's disastrous "Ten Commandments" remake. It substitutes shaky handheld cameras and dumb dialogue for craftsmanship. It could not be more amateurish or poorly constructed unless someone had forgotten to light the sets. |
