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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary Former Mayor Ed Koch ruled New York from 1978 to 1989—a down-and-dirty decade of grit, graffiti, near-bankruptcy and rampant crime. Making his directorial debut, former Wall Street Journal reporter Neil Barsky has crafted an intimate and revealing portrait of this intensely private man and the town he helped transform. Through candid in...

Directed By: Neil Barsky

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 40 m

Koch

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Summary Former Mayor Ed Koch ruled New York from 1978 to 1989—a down-and-dirty decade of grit, graffiti, near-bankruptcy and rampant crime. Making his directorial debut, former Wall Street Journal reporter Neil Barsky has crafted an intimate and revealing portrait of this intensely private man and the town he helped transform. Through candid in...

Directed By: Neil Barsky

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Jan 30, 2013
Neil Barsky's Koch doesn't try to do anything radical as a piece of filmmaking, but Barsky - a former newspaper reporter - covers Koch's story magnificently as a journalist.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 28, 2013
Barsky does a good job of taking all the complexity of such a major personality and the times in which he flourished and boiling it down to the essentials.
By Betsy Sharkey FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 11, 2013
The documentary nicely mixes vintage news footage and photographs, talking-head interviews with journalists and Koch associates, and lots (and lots) of Koch.
By Mark Feeney FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 1, 2013
Barsky’s film is light on biographical detail before Koch’s first term began, in 1978. That’s probably fitting. Koch obviously lived for the job.
By Bill Goodykoontz FULL REVIEW
67
Feb 27, 2013
The former mayor is an alert onscreen presence, but the film surrounding him is not always so lively.
By Kimberley Jones FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 3, 2013
Barsky wisely includes just enough dissenting voices and admissions of grievous error by Koch himself to prevent the picture from seeming like a 100% feel-good puff piece.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 29, 2013
The result is neither blind idolatry nor a definitive portrait; just a major missed opportunity content to loiter in the middle of the road.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Feb 1, 2013
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline The man. The mayor. The movie.
Website http://www.kochthemovie.com/
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