Rotten
Sad to say, Oliver Stone's three hours of bombast did little to raise the level of discussion.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
JFK
The story that won't go away.
1991 · 3h 9m · R
Drama, History, Thriller
Directed by
Oliver Stone
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JFK
Overview
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
Director and cast
- Oliver Stone Director
- Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison
- Tommy Lee Jones as Clay Shaw
- Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald
- Kevin Bacon as Willie O'Keefe
- Michael Rooker as Bill Broussard
- Jack Lemmon as Jack Martin
- Laurie Metcalf as Susie Cox
- Sissy Spacek as Liz Garrison
- Joe Pesci as David Ferrie
- John Candy as Dean Andrews
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Stone goes for the gut, but the complexity of theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination might have benefited from a cooler assessment.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
The film's insurmountable problem is the vast amount of material it fails to make coherent sense of.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
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.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh
Compelling info-ganda.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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