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    Review: Obama Stays Hidden in New Netflix Biopic

    The very qualities that make Obama an exceptional leader make him a boring character on screen.
    by Tom Shone Dec 23, 2016 3 minutes
    "Barry," a new original Netflix movie, premieres on the platform on December 16.
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    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

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