J. Hoberman
Obama’s Evil Twin
Surpassed only by *The Expendables 2*, with Sylvester Stallone, the Dinesh D’Souza political documentary *2016: Obama’s America* was the second-highest grossing movie in America the week that it opened—timed to coincide with the Republican National Convention—and is now among the top ten highest earning documentaries in history. Like the RNC, *2016* is designed to show the president as a false prophet and a failed leader; unlike the RNC, the D’Souza film is less interested in the nature of Obama’s politics than in the enigma of his personality. With the Democrats gathering in Charlotte to recapture the Obama story, I sought out *2016* at the Regal Union Square in Manhattan to learn more.
September 5, 2012