JFK
Director: Oliver Stone
1991 / 206min / DCP
The alpha and omega of conspiracy films, Stone’s deliriously entertaining cinematic inquest stars Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison, the New Orleans district attorney who came to find the circumstances of the 35th US president’s assassination more than a little fishy and got to digging around. Gary Oldman, as “patsy” Lee Harvey Oswald, stands out in a supporting cast teeming with familiar faces, including Tommy Lee Jones swishing it up as Louisiana businessman Clay Shaw, Brian Doyle-Murray as Jack Ruby, Donald Sutherland as whistleblower “Mr. X,” and Garrison himself as Justice Earl Warren. “A knockout. Part history book, part comic book, the movie rushes toward judgment for three breathless hours, lassoing facts and factoids by the thousands, then bundling them together into an incendiary device that would frag any viewer's complacency… Tip-top tabloid journalism. In its bravura and breadth, JFK is seditiously enthralling; in its craft, wondrously complex.” —Richard Corliss, Time
Distributor: Warner Bros.
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