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(1 - 23) of 23 OFCS Rating: 43% Rotten Page   1   4/5 "The flipside of Michael Moore's conspirapalooza, DOAP not only has a smarter satirical stab, its technical merits are beyond reproach."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin "The movie does highlight the ways that news and commercial images shape public perception."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "Without directly confronting the behaviors and attitudes associated with its theory, the movie leaves us with uncertainty, vacillation, and worst of all, emptiness."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 1.5/4 "...even the extras are unconvincing..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B "The film is a neat little experiment and an alarming 'what if?' scenario."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1.5/4 "Like the puppet some consider Dubya to be, Death of a President shows its strings too often to convince us that the man behind the curtain is truly in control of his convictions."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B "It's worth watching with grain of salt in tow. You may learn more about yourself than about the President or the war."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 3/5 "A fictional documentary that presents many of the divisive shadow elements afoot in our combative and xenophobic American culture."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "Death of a President is celluloid mediocrity. It's neither interesting nor convincing."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1/4 "Death of a President isn't art, or even entertainment: It's the art-house, indie-doc equivalent of Snakes on a Plane, where someone thought of a single idea and then, it seems based on the end-resulting film, stopped thinking altogether."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 5/10 "The movie's proposed shocking scenario comes off as a stunt, becoming the main morbid draw and leaving us little the wiser."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen "I guess everyone is just super-excited about the prospect of watching Dubya gunned down."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 5/5 "OK, so, it's got balls and technical skills, but is it anything more than a stunt? Yes, yes it is."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Karina Montgomery 3/5 "The point of view will be familiar from the news and documentaries, but conveyed more subtly than, say, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 or Robert Greenwald's Uncovered: The War on Iraq."   Film-Forward.com   Kent Turner 0/5 "Don't waste your time being offended by Death of a President. This reeking excuse of a mockumentary deserves to be completely forgotten."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 3/4 "Given the controversy, which strongly suggested that the filmmakers had it in for President Bush, the film's biggest shocker may be how kind Range and coscreenwriter Simon Finch are to him."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh C- "[The director] has expertly interwoven real and simulated footage to make a film that looks convincing, but it amounts to little more than a clever editing exercise."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer 1.5/4 "Range's aesthetic trickery isn't nearly as seamless or as clever as that found in Kevin Millmott's C.S.A.: Confederate States of America."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager C+ "Love him or hate him, George Bush has generated the kind of emotions that a film like this needs to address in more substantive terms."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "(Director Gabriel) Range is a great mimic of media reportage, but he's not above nudging the audience to note what he's not talking about."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker "It's a stunt more than a movie, and if this is what's passing for intelligent liberal thought in this (or any other) country, we're really in trouble."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 2/4 "In the end, it comes across as more of a gimmick than a bona fide film."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 23) of 23 OFCS Rating: 43% Rotten Page   1