The Diplomat
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 2, 2015
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Oct 29, 2015
    100
    If the film had been directed by anyone else, it would be only an exhaustively detailed profile of a man of Shakespearean achievements, disappointments and ambitions. But The Diplomat was directed by the subject’s son, David Holbrooke, who gives the film dimension that no other filmmaker could have achieved.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    Oct 30, 2015
    80
    [David Holbrooke] puts just enough of himself and his extended family into The Diplomat to give it some audience-friendly poignancy.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Oct 30, 2015
    80
    What really stands out, though, are the interviews with those who sat across the negotiating table from Holbrooke, such as Bosnian president Bakir Izetbegovic.... Obviously, there’s something intensely personal about Holbrooke’s son writing, directing and narrating the film, but in some respects, the biographical elements are its weakest sections.