JFK

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Critics' Reviews

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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
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 Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
[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 Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
Through his art and passion, Stone makes JFK plausible, and turns his thesis of a coup d'etat into fodder for renewed debate.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
JFK is Stone's best and most emotional film since "Platoon."Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Disturbing, infuriating yet undeniably effective, less a motion picture than an impassioned. [20 Dec 1991]Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Howe
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 Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
It's riveting moviemaking and a boost for what's left of America's ailing collective life. [20 Dec 1991]Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
The movie is often tremendously exciting.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
JFK is provocative, a technical primer and an ensemble treat with unusually well- realized star cameos. [20 Dec 1991]Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Vincent Canby
The movie, which is simultaneously arrogant and timorous, has been unable to separate the important material from the merely colorful.Read Full Review »
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