The Final Year

...is a a solid and often entertaining work...

Power, in particular, is a fascinating, fiercely smart character whose modus operandi is to reject the idea that a country’s “values” might be at odds with their “interests”, a binary the film suggests Obama also tried to break.

This fly-on-the-Oval-Office-wall documentary examines the shift during Obama’s second term from a military-first to a diplomacy-heavy approach to international relations.