Our Nixon
  • Network: CNN
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 1, 2013
Metascore
71

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. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Aug 1, 2013
    80
    Our Nixon is mainly a collage of images and sounds that tell a familiar story in an entirely new and mesmerizing way.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Aug 1, 2013
    80
    Accompanied by interviews as well as audio from the secret tapes Nixon recorded in the White House, it’s a truly absorbing look at the 37th president and the devoted insiders who surrounded him--and in several instances went to jail in his service.
  3. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Dorothy Rabinowitz
    Aug 1, 2013
    80
    This highly personal view of the Nixon years is, for obvious reasons, a sad and wrenching one--a film that is nonetheless filled with spirit, humor and a beautiful sense of irony.
  5. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    Aug 1, 2013
    80
    The result is a blend that’s sometimes funny, occasionally poignant and fitfully horrifying. There are flashes of a Nixon rarely glimpsed or perhaps even suspected.
  6. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: David Hiltbrand
    Aug 1, 2013
    70
    The retrieved home movie footage creates a lambent prism through which the '70s seem like a simpler time. It also makes Our Nixon a uniquely dynamic time capsule.
  7. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Aug 1, 2013
    60
    It just feels redundant. Perhaps little or nothing on the home movies lent itself to a richer portrait. Nixon was so guarded, that’s entirely possible.
  8. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    Aug 1, 2013
    50
    It’s an engrossing but somewhat aimless and impressionistic ramble through the Nixon presidency and tumult of the 1970s. At times it leans too heavily on artistic license.