If Client 9 - as slow and static as a film can be - has anything going for it, it's hearing these sad sacks share their venereal wisdom.

| Oct 18, 2018

Oscar winner Alex Gimbey (Taxi To The Dark Side, Freakonomics) does an excellent job of unraveling the skein of corruption and abuse that blanketed the life of what appeared to be an incorruptible man. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2018

Client-9 ... is a fascinating, if occasionally fawning, character study of the man who would be king.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2011

Informative and thought-provoking...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2011

It's a riveting story of personal hubris and political chicanery.

| Mar 7, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2011

Featuring interviews with the man himself, his enemies and one of the hookers, this isn't just a fascinating yarn but a, cough, penetrating character study.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2011

Client 9 probably won't make you like Elliot Spitzer, but it will damn sure make you respect him.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2011

Scary, fascinating stuff.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2011

Alex Gibney has a knack for telling great stories in a lucid fashion, and this story's a good 'un.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2011

As corporate exposes go, it's best to stick with Inside Job.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 3, 2011

A sharp and very American probe into payback that puts forward a strong, if not entirely watertight, case.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2011

The film lights up a complex story like a pinball machine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2011

Interviews with Spitzer, those exclusive madams and vengeful Republicans are woven into a compulsively fascinating probe of power and its dark side.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2011

As a lens into the microcosm of politics, it's as depressing as it is enlightening, demonstrating how truly we have become a country by the corporations, of the corporations and for the corporations.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 21, 2011

So was Spitzer a closet danger junkie, a stranger sex addict, victim of a stern tycoon dad 'who foreclosed me in monopoly,' or done in by an adolescent omnipotence that enormous power and wealth can bring. A shrink's two cents would have been helpful.

| Jan 12, 2011

Directed by Alex Gibney, 'Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer' goes into the heart of Manhattan and New York State politics...

| Original Score: 3 | Dec 28, 2010

I have no problem with Gibney's doc, except all of it is common knowledge ... .

| Original Score: B- | Dec 22, 2010

The movie is perfectly paced, clocking in a few minutes short of two hours, and holds your interest with its captivating subject matter. The musical selections and the aerial shots of Times Square add to the entertainment value of this slick production.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 11, 2010