Fresh
Ginnifer Goodwin as Jackie and Michelle Trachtenberg as Oswald's wife acquit themselves well in this solidly watchable, quickly forgettable dramatic snapshot of indelible history.
Jeff Jensen, Entertainment Weekly
Overview
Killing Kennedy follows the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald from the winter 1959-1960 to those fatal days in Dallas in November 1963, when they both died within two days after each other and were buried on the same day - John F. Kennedy in a state funeral in Washington D.C., broadcast live both to Europe and the Pacific, while Oswald was buried in Forth Worth at a small funeral where the attending reporters were asked to act as pallbearers.
Director and cast
- Nelson McCormick Director
- Rob Lowe as John F. Kennedy
- Will Rothhaar as Lee Harvey Oswald
- Ginnifer Goodwin as Jacqueline Kennedy
- Michelle Trachtenberg as Marina Oswald
- Jack Noseworthy as Robert F. Kennedy
- Casey Siemaszko as Jack Ruby
- Jamie McShane as US Moscow consul Richard Snyder
- Mary Pat Gleason as Marguerite Oswald
- Francis Guinan as Lyndon B. Johnson
- Boris McGiver Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
56%
Tomatometer
Fresh
You won't come away from it with any new answers, but it's a useful reminder of why the drama of that day has transfixed Americans for half a century.
David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
The dialogue is painfully clumsy, and the pacing is pure Wikipedia.
Hank Stuever, Washington Post
Fresh
Killing Kennedy is subversive in a great way. The more the pathology of Oswald is developed...the more it resembles what propels many conspiracy theorists.
Nancy DeWolf Smith, Wall Street Journal
Fresh
Killing Kennedy easily could have been twice its length, the better to add both nuance and context. Instead it's a watchable film with many missing parts, a broadly drawn Classics Illustrated version of what happened and why.
Ed Bark, Uncle Barky
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