The Sixties
CNN | Release Date: May 29, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Uncle BarkyEd BarkMay 29, 2014
Season 1 Review: Hanks himself book-ends this serviceable, talking heads/illustrative clips treatise with a pair of all-encompassing quotes. Read full review
70
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandMay 29, 2014
Season 1 Review: This is a comfort-food smorgasbord for the Woodstock generation, a harking back to that vision of ourselves as a nation with shared ideals and values. Read full review
67
NewsdayVerne GayMay 29, 2014
Season 1 Review: Respectable, incomplete survey (on TV) Thursday night, but future installments look better. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian LowryMay 29, 2014
Season 1 Review: At its best The Sixties is admirable, but to riff on an old promotional slogan, it isn’t all that it could be: Yes, it’s an exercise that might capture the magic of landing on the moon, but doesn’t take the extra step that would send viewers over it. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyMay 29, 2014
Season 1 Review: Pperhaps as a result of that mission, The Sixties often feels like an academic project, something for a modern history class. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydMay 29, 2014
Season 1 Review: The historical documentaries are more successful than the cultural ones, for having a better story to tell, but all are made in a similar style, without written narration, driven by news clips and interviews (with scholars, participants and celebrity rememberers, Hanks naturally included). Read full review
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