To realize that such studio entertainments found a way to accommodate politics and satire is to mourn something largely lost.
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06/05/08
The President's Analyst (1967)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:16
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.1/10
Synopsis: Theodore Flicker's satirical comedy skewers Cold War politics, psychiatry, spy films, and the 1960s counterculture all in one fell swoop. When the U.S. President begins to feel overwhelmed by the... [More]
Starring: James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Joan Delaney
Director: Theodore J. Flicker
Reviews for The President's Analyst
1 - 20 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Theodore Flicker's genial exercise in comic paranoia re-emerges, for no apparent reason, a reasonably fit and funny artifact from the age of grooviness.
06/04/08
No review available.
03/09/08
If Philip K. Dick had worked for Mad magazine, he might have come up with The President's Analyst.
01/18/08
No review available.
05/07/07
Mindless bureaucracy, Cold War mentality, blind liberalism, and psychoanalysis are spoofed in this fast-paced comedy.
04/02/07
Top CriticThe President's Analyst is a superior satire on some sacred cows, principally the lightly camouflaged FBI, hippies, psychiatry, liberal and conservative politics -- and the telephone company.
04/02/07
Top CriticOverall it's hilarious stuff, held together by Coburn's tongue-in-cheek performance, one of his best.
06/24/06
No review available.
06/23/05
No review available.
02/08/05
Clever political comedy that assumed cult status.
10/25/04
Writer and director Theodore Flicker's satire is modern and biting, and there are many fine, subtle touches in the film.
10/23/04
Top Criticplays like a frivolous waste of time when it should have taken a more satirical tack
05/31/04
No review available.
08/22/03
No review available.
07/31/03
A clever, cynical and paranoid satire.
05/24/03
Top CriticA cold war comic masterpiece
09/14/02
Pretty clever satire that holds up nicely
08/26/02
No review available.
07/25/02
The 60s school of improvisational comedy is beautifully preserved in Theodore J. Flicker's film.
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