The Path to 9/11
ABC | Release Date: September 10, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
3
Negative:
6

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Christian Science MonitorGloria Goodale
Season 1 Review: It's the best made-for-TV movie in years. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalDorothy Rabinowitz
Season 1 Review: A work as shapely as it is sprawling -- no small trick -- it renders the complex history that led to 9/11 with a ripping power that can at times feel overwhelming. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: It is intensely serious, and seriously well done. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
Season 1 Review: Powerfully acted, artfully produced and shot like a truly riveting page-turner. Read full review
80
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: The filmmakers' assurance makes this miniseries play more like bang-up drama than fact-filled documentary. Yet their facts pass informative muster, and emotional validity, too. Read full review
75
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: On a simple quality drama level, it's the best network miniseries in several years. Read full review
70
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: An unsparing, and at times hyperbolic, portrait of bureaucratic turf wars, buck passing and complacency. Read full review
63
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: Too confused for a documentary, insufficiently dramatized for a movie, Path simply doesn't have the skill needed to support its intentions. Read full review
63
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
Season 1 Review: Path sometimes feels like 24 downsized into The Office. [18 Sep 2006, p.39]
40
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: The six-hour film plays like a 9/11 version of "Syriana" or "Traffic," replete with ultra-close-ups and so much shaky, hand-held footage it can feel like being led around the world, half-drunk and half-blind. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Earnest but scattered and a little plodding. Read full review
40
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: One could never call "The Path to 9/11 " poorly filmed and amateurishly acted. Just questionably written. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyKen Tucker
Season 1 Review: The results strain so hard to be objective and evenhanded that they're useless as drama. [8 Sep 2006, p.149]
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: The miniseries asks a lot of patience on the part of viewers and gives too little in return. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: "The Path to 9/11" never quite arrives at narrative coherence and depth. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesSamantha Bonar
Season 1 Review: "The Path" is an irresponsible film, with its factual distortions wrapped in a really terrific package that lulls viewers into complacency, setting them up for the propaganda that is to follow. Read full review
20
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: So much of the dialogue is just dull explanation, and so much of the action rehashes events that are already known. Worse, sometimes, it repeats itself. Read full review
0
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: "Path" is the dullest, worst-shot TV movie since ABC's disastrous "Ten Commandments" remake. It substitutes shaky handheld cameras and dumb dialogue for craftsmanship. It could not be more amateurish or poorly constructed unless someone had forgotten to light the sets. Read full review
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