Death of a President (2006) Critic Reviews

The movie IS a provocation, but not a glib or ideologically myopic one.Read the full review

Many of its fiercest detractors may be surprised to find that it's a far more sobering piece of speculative fiction than they might have imagined.Read the full review

Turns out to be rather less than the sum of its headlines.Read the full review

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 the full review

Though the blending of archival footage into a faux documentary is occasionally clever, ultimately it's banal and unconvincing.Read the full review

Politically noncommittal and dull. But that's exactly the problem with this 90-minute piece of cinematic trompe l'oeil.Read the full review

Disappointingly, Death of a President shrinks from its promise as a piece of genuinely radical or adventurous speculative fiction.Read the full review

A technically inventive, thoughtful, but otherwise not particularly earth-shattering movie.Read the full review

As convincing as the manipulated footage of the President's death in Chicago in October 2007 is, the movie itself cannot be more unconvincing in its approach.Read the full review