Giuliani Time

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The result is fearlessly divisive and will no doubt play according to viewers' preexisting perceptions.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Giuliani Time has an ax to grind and wields it with dull-edged force.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

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.

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

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.

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

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.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

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.

Variety Jay Weissberg

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.

Washington Post Michael Powell

It drags a bit and suffers from not enough Rudy.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

Giuliani Time energetically deflates one trumpeted myth after another about Giuliani's success at turning the city around from its doldrums in the 1970s.

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

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.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

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.

New York Post Kyle Smith

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.