74
Metascore
9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIf ever there was a prime example of art bringing order out of chaos, it is Steven Rosenbaum's 7 Days in September. -- The result is a narrative at once personal, admirably coherent and, above all, heartening.
- 90The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensAn almost unbearably powerful documentary.
- 80L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn DumpertL.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn DumpertThe film may be rife with emotional declarations, but rather than the studied sentiments of news anchors and politicians, these ruminations have the quotidian ring of real people struggling with a standard vocabulary to describe something unthinkably new.
- 75New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsThere's nothing here for commercial reality-TV shows, just history caught on the run, offering a raw and timeless reminder of the day we had our eyes opened to the power of blind hatred.
- 70Wall Street JournalWall Street JournalEspecially well-rendered is the divide that occurred between the downtown and uptown worlds -- something that many who don't live in New York will grasp here for the first time.
- 63New York PostMegan LehmannNew York PostMegan LehmannInstructive, cathartic or just too painful? You decide.
- 60New Times (L.A.)Andy KleinNew Times (L.A.)Andy KleinWhile it's crucial to preserve and make available every bit of available footage of such an earth-shattering event, it must be said that Rosenbaum's film manages to become slack and uninvolving after a while.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe interviews occasionally veer into it-seemed-like-a-dream cliché, and the eerie soundtrack doesn't help. But at times the unpolished approach earns a rare complexity.