Koch

Like the city, Koch comes across here as brash, contradictory, almost endlessly fascinating and a bit sad.

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.

Koch offers as comprehensive a picture as it can in 94 minutes of a man whose tenure merits a miniseries.

It isn't really any more illuminating beyond the history we already know, but it humanizes the man in a way rarely seen in the national media.