JFK (1991) Critic Reviews

Director Oliver Stone has fashioned in JFK a riveting, dramatic and disturbing look at one of the great whodunits of history. [20 Dec 1991]Read the full review

Stone and his editors, Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia, have somehow triumphed over the tumult of material here and made it work - made it grip and disturb us.Read the full review

[Stone's] filmmaking is so supple and alive, his obsession with the visual aspect of history so electrifying, that JFK practically roots itself in your imagination.Read the full review

JFK is Stone's best and most emotional film since "Platoon."Read the full review

Stone creates a riveting marriage of fact and fiction, hypothesis and empirical proof in the edge-of-the-seat spirit of a conspiracy thriller.Read the full review

It's powerful film making that at the very least accomplishes what Mr. Stone said he set out to do - to offer the world an alternate myth. [20 Dec 1991]Read the full review

Disturbing, infuriating yet undeniably effective, less a motion picture than an impassioned. [20 Dec 1991]Read the full review

This massive, never-boring political thriller, which most closely resembles Costa-Gavras' Z in style and impact.Read the full review

It's riveting moviemaking and a boost for what's left of America's ailing collective life. [20 Dec 1991]Read the full review