2016: Obama's America

The film is a sleepy dud, a polemic that, like D'Souza himself, is at once both outrageous and deeply boring.

The movie seems destined to irritate the president's supporters while mobilizing his detractors, even as it is doomed to win precious few converts. It's a textbook example of preaching to the choir.

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.

Viewers may do some headscratching. This can be a very strange movie.

Every anti-Obama argument D'Souza makes from the right could be made, more forcefully, from the left.

D'Souza's demented anti-Obama crusade feels personal more than political.

Segments dealing with the college-age Obama's political activities and his later involvement with domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers are... valid and illuminating territory for viewers who haven't heard these things before.

This is neither printing the facts nor printing the legend: it's printing the flop sweat.

2016: Obama's America comes to seem like clownish alarmist speculation taking place in an echo chamber of talking heads.

D'Souza never actually shows...Obama's own words or deeds. Instead, he engages in guilt by association.

So Obama is bringing socialism to America by 2016? That would explain why Bain Capital is making bigger donations to him than to its founder Mitt Romney.

As questionable as right wing D'Souza's lack of unbiased assertions, is the seeming lack of anyone out there who can rise above being either a red state or blue state movie critic, when it comes to political documentaries in such a divided nation.