The World According to Dick Cheney

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Season 1
  • Network: SHOWTIME
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 15, 2013
Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12

Critic Reviews

  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    Mar 13, 2013
    88
    Many expected to see Cheney not just screwed, but nailed to the wall. This documentary comes awfully close.
  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    Mar 13, 2013
    80
    Cutler’s documentary The World According to Dick Cheney is a rousing piece of work.
  3. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Mar 14, 2013
    75
    Not a lot new here, but Cheney gets a fair hearing--even though a tougher one is occasionally warranted.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    Mar 15, 2013
    70
    The details of Cheney's fall from grace in the waning years of the Bush administration are fascinating and narratively satisfying.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Clark Collis
    Mar 12, 2013
    67
    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.

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User Score
5.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. Ironicguy
    May 17, 2014
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. Turns out, contrary to popular belief.... Dick Cheney has a heart. Cheney goes into depth about his alcoholic past, and his time in the white going from Watergate to Iraq. We understand the stresses of the Bush administration and the lies inside the executive branch. It is truly a compelling documentary. But it is also disturbing, Dick Cheney shows no remorse for any of his actions. Even the ones that cost lives.… Full Review »
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