JFK (1991) Critic Reviews
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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 riveting moviemaking and a boost for what's left of America's ailing collective life. [20 Dec 1991]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
JFK is provocative, a technical primer and an ensemble treat with unusually well- realized star cameos. [20 Dec 1991]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
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 is often tremendously exciting.Read the full review
JFK is Stone's best and most emotional film since "Platoon."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
