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The Final Year

2017

Greg Barker

Documentary, Self: Barack Obama, John Kerry, Samantha Power

6.3

105

Documentary A sweeping, insiders' account of President Barack Obama's foreign policy team during their final year as they set out to define their legacy, promote diplomacy - and react to the unexpected rise of Donald Trump.

	Author	Review
United States	Scott Tobias Variety	"[It] stumbles on the unscripted ending (...) There’s a promotional quality to the documentary that flattens out the political drama (...) Political junkies (...) may want to see Obama’s ideals in action"	NEU
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"A fascinating look at how the diplomatic sausage is made (...) [It] should prove irresistible to anyone interested in politics"	POS
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman The Wrap	"The entire documentary is composed of moments that will evoke immediate nostalgia (...) It‘s as if we’re watching a horror movie in which we (...) already know the twist ending."	POS
United States	Steven Zeitchik Los Angeles Times	"[It] offers an urgent ideological rebuttal to Trump's presidency (...) If the film’s observational sections are light on substance, they make up for that with intimacy."	NEU
United Kingdom	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"This brainy-but-intimate doc is a nostalgia trip with insights to burn (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"The fly-on-the-wall film is fascinating at times, but less than essential (...) Barker is unassuming and deferential to a fault (...) [It finds] genuine moments of both intellectual and empathetic depth"	NEU
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"'The Final Year' doesn't do anything to rehabilitate the Democrat's image, which is clearly among the documentary's aims (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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