2016: Obama's America 2012

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Every anti-Obama argument D'Souza makes from the right could be made, more forcefully, from the left. Read more

Andy Webster, New York Times: Not interviewed by the filmmakers are Obama's political supporters, but this isn't that kind of documentary. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: An exercise in preaching to the choir. Read more

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: Viewers may do some headscratching. This can be a very strange movie. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A nonsensically unsubstantiated act of character assassination. Read more

Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter: 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 more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: The film is not after new insight; rather, it's intent on laying out the arguments of a man who has given the same lecture countless times. That makes for a sluggish film. Even its outrage falls flat. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Presented as a conspiracy-thriller with ominous music and zig-zaggy camerawork, "2016" hammers at suspicions, not issues -- a dishonorable tactic whether from the right or the left. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The film asks the question "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?," then posits some disturbing answers. Disturbing, but dubious. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: D'Souza's demented anti-Obama crusade feels personal more than political. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: 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 [Obama]. Read more

Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice: The film is a sleepy dud, a polemic that, like D'Souza himself, is at once both outrageous and deeply boring. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: 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. Read more