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Koch
Directed by
Neil Barsky
Not Rated
2013
1h 35m
Documentary
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6.6
93%
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A documentary on Ed Koch, the mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.
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Cast of Koch
Ed Koch
Self
Michael Bloomberg
Self
Bella Abzug
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Al Sharpton
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rudolph Giuliani
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bess Myerson
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Koch Ratings & Reviews
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Like the city, Koch comes across here as brash, contradictory, almost endlessly fascinating and a bit sad.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Barsky wisely includes just enough dissenting voices and admissions of grievous error by Koch himself to prevent the pic from seeming like a 100% feel-good puff piece.
The Hollywood Reporter
THR Staff
Koch offers as comprehensive a picture as it can in 94 minutes of a man whose tenure merits a miniseries.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
He was certainly combative, and confident, and full of love for the city he governed with such gusto. Koch is a New York story for the whole world to appreciate.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
What he really was was one of a kind. Whether intentionally or not, "Koch" shows that that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
An emphasis on Koch the character obscures his administration.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
Though the film, more than two years in the making, was never intended as such, it plays like the kind of eulogy Koch would have approved - neither fawning nor eviscerating but always compelling.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The film advances no theories to explain his contradictions, only a thrilling, sometimes affecting account of what he did.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
The former mayor is an alert onscreen presence, but the film surrounding him is not always so lively.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
"How'm I doin'?" Koch famously asked anyone and everyone he passed by, rarely hanging around for the answer. In "Koch," for the most part, he does all right.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
"Koch" is a treasure trove of little moments that illuminate a famously cantankerous, sharp-elbowed, showboating personality.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A highlight-to-lowlight chronicle of the man's three terms as mayor, and in the case of any other mayor, such a narrow focus might have seemed reductive.
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Jordan Hoffman
Even if he stomped on your special interest you can't deny that he did it with a sui generis verve that mixed region-specific curmudgeon-ism and impish joie de vivre
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Koch presents an uncommonly juicy subject for a documentary, and filmmaker Neil Barsky makes the most of the opportunity.
NPR
Stephanie Zacharek
If the film were even two minutes longer, it might constitute Koch overload. Luckily, Barsky knows when enough is enough, even if his subject doesn't.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
It's hard to fault a documentary for being as slanted toward a subject as director Neil Barsky's "Koch" is when the movie chronicles as self-celebratory a figure as former Mayor Ed Koch.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
New York may be a safer, cleaner and less argumentative place than it was in the 1980s, but he remains as contentious, as mischievous and at times as inflammatory as ever.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Koch doesn't try to do anything radical as a piece of filmmaking, but Barsky -- a former newspaper reporter -- covers Koch's story magnificently as a journalist.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Neil Barsky is aware of how a great and terribly troubling person can reside in the same body, but his occasional eagerness to appoint himself as his subject's latest press agent is dubious.
Village Voice
Nick Schager
If unlikely to change anyone's mind about its subject, it's an effective primer on a voluble and charismatic mayor who embodied the spirit of the city he loved.
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