The President's Analyst 1967

Critics score:
80 / 100

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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The 60s school of improvisational comedy is beautifully preserved in Theodore J. Flicker's film. Read more

Mark Bourne, Film.com: If Philip K. Dick had worked for Mad magazine, he might have come up with The President's Analyst. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Writer and director Theodore Flicker's satire is modern and biting, and there are many fine, subtle touches in the film. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Overall it's hilarious stuff, held together by Coburn's tongue-in-cheek performance, one of his best. Read more

Variety: The 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. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: 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. Read more