JFK (1991) Critic Reviews
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It's riveting moviemaking and a boost for what's left of America's ailing collective life. [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
Disturbing, infuriating yet undeniably effective, less a motion picture than an impassioned. [20 Dec 1991]Read the full review
The movie is often tremendously exciting.Read the full review
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
The movie, which is simultaneously arrogant and timorous, has been unable to separate the important material from the merely colorful.Read the full review
JFK is provocative, a technical primer and an ensemble treat with unusually well- realized star cameos. [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 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
