Review: Obama Stays Hidden in New Netflix Biopic
The very qualities that make Obama an exceptional leader make him a boring character on screen.
While President Barack Obama decides on his future—a return to his roots as a community organizer? A de facto leader for the Trump resistance? More writing?—pop culture has stepped in to give him the Mount Rushmore treatment. First we had a sweet, inoffensive Sundance hit about his and Michelle Obama’s first date. Now we have Vikram Gandhi’s film for Netflix about Obama’s year as a transfer student at Columbia University, a period in which the future
