Rotten
What's missing is shapeliness, suspense, narrative cunning, visual flair -- in short, art. Are we really to believe that a network of the future would broadcast such a barbiturate?
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Death of a President
2006 · 1h 37m · R
Documentary, Drama, Science Fiction
Directed by
Gabriel Range
Overview
A fictional investigative documentary looks back on the "assassination" of George W. Bush and attempts to answer the question of who committed the murder. Perhaps less morbid and disturbing to watch now than during Bush's presidency, the film doesn't address Bush's policies at all, instead focusing on the way a nation assigns blame in a time of crisis.
Director and cast
- Gabriel Range Director
- Hend Ayoub as Zahra Abi Zikri
- Becky Ann Baker as Eleanor Drake
- Brian Boland as Larry Stafford
- Michael Reilly Burke as Robert H. Maguire
- Seena Ghaznavi as Samir Masri
- Robert Mangiardi as Greg Turner
- Neko Parham as Casey Claybon
- Jay Patterson as Sam McCarthy
- Chavez Ravine as Marianne Claybon
- Christian Stolte Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
39%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Range comes about these issues in a provocative way, but they're still worth discussing, aren't they?
Scott Tobias, AV Club
Rotten
Just as the ducks get lined up in a row and we're ready for the movie to reveal its true purpose -- Political satire? Paranoid dystopian fantasy? Apologia for the Bush administration? -- we suddenly realize it has none.
Dana Stevens, Slate
Fresh
Every thinking person should see Death of a President.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
Death of a President is thought-provoking, but as much for 'how'd they do that?' as for its ideas.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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