JFK

Movie Ranked #299 | 1991 - Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.On November 22, 1963, president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby, supposedly avenging the president's death. An investigation concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby acted alone in their respective crimes, but Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison is skeptical. Assembling a trusted group of people, Garrison conducts his own investigation, bringing about backlash from powerful gov ... More from IMDb
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Best two reviews:
1) Chicago Sun-Times - 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. (Rating: 100) Read Full Review >
2) San Francisco Chronicle - Director Oliver Stone has fashioned in JFK a riveting, dramatic and disturbing look at one of the great whodunits of history. [20 Dec 1991] (Rating: 100) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
21) The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - A three-hour oration, rambling and familiar and repetitive, during which director Oliver Stone uses the assassination of John Kennedy as an elaborate pretext for delivering a dull sermon. [20 Dec 1991] (Rating: 25) Read Full Review >
22) Chicago Reader - Stone's all-purpose conspiracy theory, built like a house of cards, rivals "Mississippi Burning" in its sheer crudeness and contempt for the audience. (Rating: 20) Read Full Review >
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