'2016: Obama's America': What the Critics Are Saying - the film “really goes off the rails” when it tries to connect the president’s past with a supposed sinister agenda #p2 #tcot

2016: Obama's America shocked box office observers with its strong Friday performance, in which it topped all other new films.

It's $2.2 million haul helped make the anti-Barack Obamamovie the top grossing documentary of the year (not counting nature films), and could propel it to a $6 million weekend cume.

In the film, co-director and onscreen narrator Dinesh D'Souza imagines what the U.S. would be like, should Obama win a second term—and what he imagines isn't pretty.

Here is a sampling of what the critics had to say about D'Souza's film.

The Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Farber praised the film's "fairly measured" look at Obama's personal life and early history, however he found the film "really goes off the rails" when it moves from the biographical to the speculative.

"We hear about 'Obama's Chicago pal' Bill Ayers, though D'Souza admits that Obama met Ayers in 1995, 25 years after Ayers' involvement with the Weather Underground," Farber wrote. "D'Souza also points out that Obama took a class at Columbia taught by Edward Said, the renowned pro-Palestinian scholar. Do any of these marginal associations prove that Obama aims to introduce socialism to America and undermine the state of Israel?"

rest at http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/2016-obamas-america-movie-review-documentary-barack-365473