The slickest, most polished commercial for a photo collection book the world has ever seen, “The Way I See It” is less a documentary and more of a sales pitch. An assemblage of interviews and speaking engagement clips, on its surface the film is a meditation on presidential temperament as seen through the eyes of Obama’s official White House photographer, Pete Souza. There is nothing especially revelatory here, however, and rather than probe at difficult questions or unexplored avenues of consideration, the documentary contents itself with a book report approach whose conclusions are known from the jump.

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