Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time
National Geographic | Release Date: July 27, 2025
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
80
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 4 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The GuardianPhil HarrisonJul 28, 2025
Season 1 Review: This documentary feels timely and resonant because, 20 years on, it still seems like unfinished business. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydJul 28, 2025
Season 1 Review: Director Traci A. Curry (“Attica”) necessarily repeats many of Lee’s incidents and themes. But she finds her own way through mountains of material in the series that is at once highly compelling and difficult to watch — though I suggest you do. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergJul 24, 2025
Season 1 Review: Race Against Time isn’t determined to break new information or even to offer refined understanding. Instead, it’s a straightforward and passionate reminder that just because we know what went so very wrong in New Orleans — resulting in an estimated 1,392 fatalities and $125 billion in damages — doesn’t mean that lessons were learned or retained. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonJul 24, 2025
Season 1 Review: Directed by Traci A. Curry and edited, deftly, by Jeremy Siefer, “Katrina” is an irresistibly absorbing series, about bad planning, no planning, arrogant administrations, racism and doing emergency response on the cheap. Read full review
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