Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 4, 2014
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7

Critic Reviews

  1. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Aug 5, 2014
    100
    Fascinating and deeply troubling.
  2. Denver Post
    Reviewed by: Joanne Ostrow
    Aug 5, 2014
    80
    You may have read the transcripts over the years, but to hear the dialog, now on the eve of the 40th anniversary of his Aug. 9, 1974 resignation, is newly eye-opening.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Aug 5, 2014
    80
    The strange little documentary Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words is engrossing despite itself.
  5. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Aug 5, 2014
    80
    Though not as artfully constructed as Penny Lane’s excellent documentary “Our Nixon,” which aired last year on CNN, Nixon by Nixon is similarly judicious in its use of visuals and old footage.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Aug 5, 2014
    80
    Despite the overload of information we’ve acquired about Nixon in the years since, the tapes still have the power to jar.
  7. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Cynthia Fuchs
    Aug 5, 2014
    60
    While the picture it provides is certainly strange and paradoxical, it is also limited.
  8. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Mark Feeney
    Aug 5, 2014
    50
    A larger shortcoming of the documentary is that it shows Nixon in an almost unrelievedly unflattering light. His presidency had substantial achievements to go with the failures and fiascoes, and he was a far more complex man than the relentlessly grim bozo seen and heard here.