The movie IS a provocation, but not a glib or ideologically myopic one.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
Range has a marvelous feel for the clichés and conventions of TV-news documentary, and the tone of mournful elegy he strikes here is both convincing and -- believe me, I'm shocked to be writing this -- moving.Read Full Review »
Dramatically inert but a minor techno-miracle, Range's movie is a faux documentary with fake talking heads and seamless digital effects.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
As skillful an artist as Range clearly is, he has gone to an awful lot of trouble to make a painfully obvious point about threats to civil liberties in a post-9/11 world.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Carina Chocano
A technically inventive, thoughtful, but otherwise not particularly earth-shattering movie.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Death of a President is celluloid mediocrity. It's neither interesting nor convincing.Read Full Review »
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Slate: Dana Stevens
Politically noncommittal and dull. But that's exactly the problem with this 90-minute piece of cinematic trompe l'oeil.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Turns out to be rather less than the sum of its headlines.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Though the blending of archival footage into a faux documentary is occasionally clever, ultimately it's banal and unconvincing.Read Full Review »
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