Giuliani Time Reviews
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.
Full Review | Jun 20, 2006
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.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 16, 2006
Giuliani Time energetically deflates one trumpeted myth after another about Giuliani's success at turning the city around from its doldrums in the 1970s.
Full Review | Jun 15, 2006
Plays more like a rant, and a poorly focused one at that.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 9, 2006
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.
| Original Score: C | May 26, 2006
I wanted more of those press conferences where he lashed at 'actually really jerky' questions before turning on his heel and exiting stage right. When Giuliani Time gives us a taste of this Rudy, it's mesmerizing.
| May 25, 2006
The film slogs through the history of the Giuliani controversies without telling us anything we didn't already know. It also frequently contradicts itself.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 12, 2006
The film, while hardly unbiased, is not entirely one-sided.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 11, 2006
So successful -- the archive being so generous, after all -- at painting Giuliani as an unlikable bully that by the end of the film you're left wondering, Why even bother?
| May 11, 2006
Keating's film brings back, to queasy-making effect, the state of New York City's body politic under Rudolph Giuliani's mayoral tenure.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 11, 2006
Keating's film is a comet out of the past, but it's focused, if only circumstantially, on the future.
Full Review | May 9, 2006
Keating wants to bust apart the myth of Giuliani's sanctification after 9/11, but with the film set to open only in New York, what he's really doing is preaching to the choir.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 2, 2006
Keating strips away the self-aggrandizement and analyzes the record.
| Apr 13, 2006