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Giuliani Time
Cinema Libre Studio
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Rudolph W. Giuliani
This chilling documentary examines Giuliani's rise to power, his policies and his so-called turnaround of New York City. (Cinema Libre)
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Kevin Keating
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 21, 2006
Theatrical: May 12, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
130 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The result is fearlessly divisive and will no doubt play according to viewers' preexisting perceptions.
75
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Giuliani Time has an ax to grind and wields it with dull-edged force.
70
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.
70
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.
70
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.
60
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.
60
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.
60
Washington Post
Michael Powell
It drags a bit and suffers from not enough Rudy.
60
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.
50
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.
50
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.
25
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.
 The average user rating for this movie is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes
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