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By Trisha Brown (5) for Brightest Young Things (103) on 19 Jan 2018

You might learn something from The Final Year, but you'll pay for it with the souring of your nostalgia…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 19 Jan 2018

Filmmaker Greg Barker's documentary is both an inspiring portrait of an American leader and a shattering reality check…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 19 Jan 2018

uses its remarkable access to capture some powerfully candid moments, especially leading up to the apprehensive transition of power…

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By Robert Horton (590) for HeraldNet (Everett, WA) (288) on 19 Jan 2018

It's one of those films, like From Here to Eternity or Titanic, where you know a giant historical event is going to happen at the end and overturn…

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By Jack F (599) on 19 Jan 2018

A fantastic look at what a highly functional White House full of competent officials and public servants and all around decent people is like…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 19 Jan 2018

As an evocation of on-the-ground political reality, The Final Year is a a solid and often entertaining work in much the same wheelhouse as…

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By Matt Turner (5) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 19 Jan 2018

Occasionally illuminating insights into diplomacy, international relations and the cultivation of self-image…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 19 Jan 2018

The movie is barely an hour and a half but feels dense, and exhausting, as Barker skips among three protagonists who are up against a ticking clock…

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By Alan Zilberman (171) for Washington Post (9,851) on 18 Jan 2018

The Final Year teeters toward insight, only to turn its attention to personalities…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 18 Jan 2018

Access means nothing if you don't do anything of worth with it…

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By Josh Modell (41) for AV Club (2,778) on 18 Jan 2018

The documentary follows — and frequently lionizes — three Obama officials throughout 2016, and frequently feels like it was intended as…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 18 Jan 2018

Gradually documentarian Greg Barker's look at Barack Obama's foreign policy team comes into focus, thanks in large part to the counterpoint…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 18 Jan 2018

An interesting but less than spontaneous record of effort and achievement that has been almost completely undone by the unexpected result of…

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By Bruce Demara (410) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 18 Jan 2018

Rather interesting although only fitfully compelling…

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By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 18 Jan 2018

This is not what the director Greg Barker and his colleagues set out to make, so all they can do is contemplate the wreckage and wonder what…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 18 Jan 2018

For its target audience, The Final Year can't help but have a melancholy feel, any more than it can be separated from the prism of politics…

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By Brian Thompson (55) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 18 Jan 2018

The Final Year isn't going to convince anyone who is firmly planted on the opposite side of the aisle, but undoubtedly it will stir those who…

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By Calvin Wilson (480) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 18 Jan 2018

The film will be of particular interest to foreign-policy wonks, but it also plays well as a drama about the limited ability of any president…

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By Paddy Kehoe (74) for RTÉ (Ireland) (721) on 18 Jan 2018

Chris Barker has done the best with his material, and he has managed to show the dying days of an administration, warts and all at best…

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By Christian Lorentzen (13) for The New Republic (897) on 18 Jan 2018

It isn't, like [Don DeLillo's] novels, paranoid or funny or, despite its tragic surprise ending, full of dread…

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