JFK
The November 22, 1963, assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy shocked the nation and the world. A New Orleans DA discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
1 October 1947, Manila, Philippines
April 7, 1893 in Watertown, New York, USA
20 November 1925, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
20 November 1921, Knoxville, Iowa, USA
18 March 1931
April 17, 1894 in Kalinovka, Dmitriyev Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Khomutovka Raion, Kursk Oblast, Russia]
4 November 1916, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
7 August 1955, Cartersville, Georgia, USA
May 12, 2001
As speculation, JFK is riveting. As proof, it's bunk. Stone has turned what he considers the crime of the century into a disturbing anomaly -- a dishonest search for truth.
December 20, 2016
While Stone has certainly stirred up the waters, with good conscience and, in JFK's own parlance, "with vigah," most people are likely to regard JFK as BS.
November 22, 2013
an imperfect masterpiece
June 24, 2006
Stone goes for the gut, but the complexity of theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination might have benefited from a cooler assessment.
November 12, 2013
Even aside from what it's saying, and even with the many, many forced moments, JFK has a mad genius about it.
February 13, 2001
Costner may not resemble the real Garrison much ... but the actor, in a low-key but forceful performance, nicely conveys the requisite grit, curiosity and fearlessness.
November 12, 2013
It's damn entertaining and thought-provoking.
May 20, 2003
The film's insurmountable problem is the vast amount of material it fails to make coherent sense of.
March 04, 2011
Despite the controversial and verbose nature of the material, not to mention lenghty running time, Oliver Stone's JFK is a riveting dramatizaition of various conspiracy theories regarding the Kennedy's assassination
July 28, 2015
JFK undeniably is well crafted and exhilarating. But it comes equipped with the biggest movie caveat emptor on record -- the historical context is Stone's and Stone's alone.
March 27, 2009
Sad to say, Oliver Stone's three hours of bombast did little to raise the level of discussion.
