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Critics Consensus: The Final Year uses director Greg Barker's wide-ranging access to take a detailed inside look at the closing months of the Obama administration.
Critic Consensus: The Final Year uses director Greg Barker's wide-ranging access to take a detailed inside look at the closing months of the Obama administration.
All Critics (99) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (83) | Rotten (16)
Regardless of politics, it's fascinating to see how the White House works.
"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.
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 the durable political documentary
At least one viewer wept all the way through the credits.
Call it Requiem for a Globalistic Dream.
Every big issue covered in the film can't possibly be done justice in 90 minutes, but even getting the broad strokes here offers more solid information than could be found on the nightly news ...
Hardcore political junkies are the only ones likely to find it outright enthralling, and Barker does nothing to make the fly-on-the-wall raw material particularly invigorating.
A candid insider's view of the Presidency, enlightening about diplomatic processes during the recent past and completely humanistic at addressing the challenges society still faces. After watching, you'll yearn for politics to be this boring again.
Demonstrating the human element that goes into doctrine, "The Final Year" does something more impressive than capture history being made by elucidating how it is made, creating a time capsule that may be even more interesting decades on.
The Final Year is a fascinating - yet somehow also glossy - insight into the unseen workings of US diplomacy in the last year of Barack Obama's presidency.
In a way, this documentary delivers many reality checks that the best idea is not necessarily the most followed idea.
It's a good watch if you're a political wonk, but even if you don't follow foreign policy all that closely, it's a good education.
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