2016: Obama's America
Rocky Mountain Pictures | Release Date: July 13, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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70
VarietyJoe LeydonAug 20, 2012
While it's highly unlikely that anyone predisposed to championing Obama would be won over by the sound and fury here, there's no gainsaying the value of "2016" as a sort of Cliffs Notes precis of the conservative case against the re-election of our current U.S. president. Read full review
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Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 27, 2012
He (D'Souza) reaffirms many of the complaints against Obama, and when he sticks to the facts is much more persuasive. Read full review
55
MovielineChristopher CampbellSep 1, 2012
With the out-of-nowhere success of 2016: Obama's America, the nation could finally have a conservative counterpart to Michael Moore. I say the nation rather than the Republicans, because a balanced box office is good for us all, at least as a reminder of our right to oppose the current government and make a profit in doing so. Read full review
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Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaAug 27, 2012
Obama, it is implied, is deliberately making America more vulnerable to attack from Muslim extremists. No mention is made of the fact that it was under Obama's watch that Osama bin Laden was killed. Read full review
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The New York TimesAndy WebsterAug 20, 2012
Mr. D'Souza stumbles when interviewing George Obama, the president's half-brother, an activist who voluntarily lives amid squalor in Nairobi, Kenya. "Obama has not done anything to help you," Mr. D'Souza says. "He's taking care of me; I'm part of the world," George Obama replies. Read full review
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McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJun 30, 2014
“Obama’s America” flutters to the ground like so much GOP convention confetti, all assertions, few facts and little substance other than the conspiratorial right wing talking points that are how D’Souza’s makes his living. Read full review
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Washington PostMichael O'SullivanAug 27, 2012
D'Souza makes it all sound almost plausible, but only if you're predisposed to believe that Obama hates America. It's bashing, all right, but with a velvet-gloved fist. Read full review
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TimeRichard CorlissAug 27, 2012
Many of D’Souza’s charges in his movie are either piffling (Obama returned a bust of Winston Churchill to the British Embassy), wrong (the U.S. is drilling for at least as much oil now as in the George W. Bush) or murky. Read full review
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Boxoffice MagazinePhil ContrinoAug 24, 2012
Even if 2016 is preaching to the choir, its fanbase is eager to tithe - it's spent this week as Fandango's #1 ticket seller. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberAug 20, 2012
No one doubts that the country faces major challenges in the next four years, but there is one safe bet: The future is unlikely to be affected by this simplistic documentary. Read full review
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Boston GlobeMark FeeneyAug 27, 2012
Well, fair's fair. George W. Bush got Michael Moore and "Fahrenheit 9/11." Now Barack Obama gets Dinesh D'Souza and 2016: Obama's America. Both films are wildly partisan attack documentaries made by wildly partisan and generally annoying polemicists (D'Souza is more personable, actually, than Moore). Read full review
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Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJun 30, 2014
The only true surprise here is D'Souza's haplessness in constructing both film and argument. Read full review
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Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanJun 30, 2014
Dinesh D'Souza's documentary is no mere screed: 2016: Obama's America is a nonsensically unsubstantiated act of character assassination. Read full review
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SalonAndrew O'HehirAug 31, 2012
One could and perhaps should use scare quotes around "intellectual" when it comes to someone who would crank out a piece of campaign-season partisan hackwork this crude and sloppy. (By this standard, James Carville looks like Immanuel Kant.) Read full review
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