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- 75TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe result is fearlessly divisive and will no doubt play according to viewers' preexisting perceptions.
- 75Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrGiuliani Time has an ax to grind and wields it with dull-edged force.
- 70Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonAfter 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.
- 70SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirWhile 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.
- 60The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensIn 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.
- 60Washington PostWashington PostIt drags a bit and suffers from not enough Rudy.
- 60L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorGiuliani Time energetically deflates one trumpeted myth after another about Giuliani's success at turning the city around from its doldrums in the 1970s.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe 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.
- 25New York PostNew York PostThe 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.