The World According to Dick Cheney
SHOWTIME | Release Date: March 15, 2013
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
New York PostLinda StasiMar 13, 2013
Season 1 Review: Many expected to see Cheney not just screwed, but nailed to the wall. This documentary comes awfully close. Read full review
80
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinMar 13, 2013
Season 1 Review: Cutler’s documentary The World According to Dick Cheney is a rousing piece of work. Read full review
75
NewsdayVerne GayMar 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: Not a lot new here, but Cheney gets a fair hearing--even though a tougher one is occasionally warranted. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraMar 15, 2013
Season 1 Review: The details of Cheney's fall from grace in the waning years of the Bush administration are fascinating and narratively satisfying. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyClark CollisMar 12, 2013
Season 1 Review: Here Cheney sounds like he's still campaigning for viewers' votes as he defends the decision to go to war against Iraq, declines to admit that waterboarding is a form of torture, and only struggles for an answer when he is asked to name his main faults. Read full review
60
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayMar 15, 2013
Season 1 Review: The World According to Dick Cheney has some chilling moments, from his dispassionate description of waterboarding ("It creates a sensation of drowning") to his 9/11 narrative, in which he takes responsibility for having authorized the shooting down of Flight 93 if it approached Washington. What it doesn't have is a lot of navel-gazing. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyMar 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: The documentary doesn’t fawn over its subject. War skeptics get plenty of time to explain why they think Cheney was wrong.... Conversely, when the filmmakers make an effort to humanize Cheney, he doesn’t give them much to work with. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyMar 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: The World According to Dick Cheney has interesting insights and revealing moments, but for critics who long to confront Mr. Cheney it may prove dissatisfying, because it allows him to make astonishing assertions without direct contradiction or follow-up questions. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandMar 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: The strength of the documentary is that although it is grounded in an extensive interview with its subject, it is not hagiography. Writers like Woodward and Gellman weigh in with considered and not always flattering opinions about Cheney. That said, noticeable by their absence as interview subjects in the film are Rice and, in particular, Bush. Read full review
42
Uncle BarkyEd BarkMar 12, 2013
Season 1 Review: The World According to Dick Cheney instead is nuts-and-bolts bland and overly deferential. Read full review
40
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertMar 15, 2013
Season 1 Review: There is no sense of who Cheney is, beyond his restatements. Read full review
40
Washington PostHank StueverMar 12, 2013
Season 1 Review: The film is a sturdy but ultimately stifled exercise in the most polite methods of interrogation--to which its subject is entirely immovable and not prepared to surrender anything, even a smile. Read full review
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