Oswald's Ghost Critic Reviews

In Oswald's Ghost, his vast chronicle of the JFK assassination and its cultural aftermath, Stone uses little-seen footage to assemble the events of Nov. 22, 1963, with a fascinating present-tense density.Read the full review

Oswald's Ghost impresses as a concise, intelligent and rigorously well-researched piece of work.Read the full review

Late in the film, Stone interviews Norman Mailer, a one-time conspiracy-believer who eventually wrote a book that tried to get inside Oswald's head, explaining how Oswald's story is America's story. In less than a minute, Mailer describes the documentary Stone should've made.Read the full review

The documentary Oswald’s Ghost initially plays as yet another primer on the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the vilification of Lee Harvey Oswald.Read the full review

While trying to establish whether a conspiracy took place, the film attempts to solve the enigma that was Lee Harvey Oswald.Read the full review

Never really decides whether it wants to concentrate on providing information or sociological analysis, with the result that it fails to fully satisfy on either level.Read the full review