A movie that hardly needs an ad campaign

Death of a President doesn’t open in the U.S. until Friday, and already the British mockumentary has garnered a chorus of boos, which functions nicely as free advertising for the film. Perhaps that response is to be expected of a “what if” exercise that imagines the assassination of a political leader who still happens to be breathing. In this case, it’s George W. Bush, and the year is 2007. (The film aired on TV earlier this month in the U.K.,