Barack and Michelle’s First Date: Southside With You

Southside with YouDirected by Richard TanneOpens August 26
What a difference two terms make: Around this point in George W. Bush’s administration, Oliver Stone was putting the final touches on W., a lacerating if also somewhat empathetic portrait of our then-sitting president as an unloved alcoholic dope with a chip on his shoulder. In the final months of his successor’s presidency, Southside with You gives Barack and Michelle Obama the Before Sunrise treatment. The movie takes some