Fall to Grace
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 28, 2013
Metascore
52

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6

Critic Reviews

  1. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Mar 28, 2013
    70
    His easy camaraderie with these women [in prison] forms the core of the film, HBO's eighth collaboration with filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, and their mutual affection and hope for a better future is genuinely inspiring.
  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Tirdad Derakhshani
    Mar 27, 2013
    70
    Pelosi tells McGreevey's story in her eighth HBO documentary, the insightful, eminently watchable Fall to Grace.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Mar 27, 2013
    70
    Interesting and small in scope, the 47-minute doc is relaxed, unhurried and not a bit longer than it needs to be.
  5. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Mar 28, 2013
    40
    What Pelosi has here is the start of a more meaningful film about second chances and forgiveness, but what she ends up with looks more like a greeting card.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    Mar 27, 2013
    40
    Throughout, Fall to Grace feels disappointingly safe and formulaic.
  7. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Mar 27, 2013
    33
    A thorough whitewashing.