The Final Year

Greg Barker's documentary provides a fly-on-the-wall perspective on Obama's foreign policy team during their last months in office.

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Greg Barker's documentary provides a fly-on-the-wall perspective on Obama's foreign policy team during their last months in office.

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Watching intelligent, stable adults work on foreign policy may cause pangs of painful nostalgia.

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We can rarely predict the future, and Barker and his subjects learned that the hard way. Yet, you can’t help leaving “The Final Year” wishing Barker — like the rest of us — did more to open the conversation, to provide more perspective into Trump’s rising power and to offer more candid insights into what happens when the impossible becomes a reality.

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Documentary detailing the final months of the administration leading up to 2016 election is now a stark look back in anger.

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We can rarely predict the future, and Barker and his subjects learned that the hard way. Yet, you can’t help leaving “The Final Year” wishing Barker — like the rest of us — did more to open the conversation, to provide more perspective into Trump’s rising power and to offer more candid insights into what happens when the impossible becomes a reality.

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Greg Barker's "The Final Year" is an engrossing documentary about the last year's worth of foreign policy work during the Obama administration.

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Documentary detailing the final months of the administration leading up to 2016 election is now a stark look back in anger.

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Greg Barker's "The Final Year" is an engrossing documentary about the last year's worth of foreign policy work during the Obama administration.

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In the final half-hour, things start picking up, not just because of the impending surprise victory of Donald J. Trump and the way these players react to it.

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A documentary following senior members of Barack Obama’s foreign policy team in their last year in office.

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The Final Year is stirring and saddening, but too well behaved by half; I wanted it to be a little less Steven Pinker and a little more Dwayne Johnson. I wanted the huge fight.

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The deepest frustration is that Barker had seemingly unrestricted access to one of the most revolutionary and skilled White House offices of the postwar era, yet the end result is like condensing an entire season of The West Wing and cutting out all the best monologues.

2643d ago

In the final half-hour, things start picking up, not just because of the impending surprise victory of Donald J. Trump and the way these players react to it.

2643d ago

A documentary following senior members of Barack Obama’s foreign policy team in their last year in office.

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“The Final Year” follows efforts of Obama team members to fix a world they don’t notice is burning.

2643d ago

The deepest frustration is that Barker had seemingly unrestricted access to one of the most revolutionary and skilled White House offices of the postwar era, yet the end result is like condensing an entire season of The West Wing and cutting out all the best monologues.

2643d ago

The Final Year is stirring and saddening, but too well behaved by half; I wanted it to be a little less Steven Pinker and a little more Dwayne Johnson. I wanted the huge fight.

2643d ago

“The Final Year” follows efforts of Obama team members to fix a world they don’t notice is burning.

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Obsessed by symbolism and decorum, Greg Barker’s documentary misses the sea change in plain sight.

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Greg Barker's documentary follows President Obama's foreign policy team, but stumbles on the unscripted ending.

2643d ago

Obsessed by symbolism and decorum, Greg Barker’s documentary misses the sea change in plain sight.

2643d ago

Greg Barker's documentary follows President Obama's foreign policy team, but stumbles on the unscripted ending.

2643d ago