Stone's flashy filmmaking, including grand set pieces in enormous secret facilities, can't conceal his flat, thin, psychology-free depiction of a modest and self-sacrificing hero who single-handedly changed the politics of our time.
Snowden
The only safe place is on the run.
2016 · 2h 15m · R
Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Directed by
Oliver Stone
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Snowden
Overview
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Director and cast
- Oliver Stone Director
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden
- Shailene Woodley as Lindsay Mills
- Melissa Leo as Laura Poitras
- Zachary Quinto as Glenn Greenwald
- Tom Wilkinson as Ewen MacAskill
- Scott Eastwood as Trevor James
- Timothy Olyphant as CIA Agent Geneva
- Ben Schnetzer as Gabriel Sol
- LaKeith Stanfield as Patrick Haynes
- Rhys Ifans as Corbin O'Brian
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
As Snowden, Gordon-Levitt is so muted, so cloistered, that it can be easy to miss that it's a very good performance.
It's a fawning piece of work.
Stone is so intent on making Snowden an icon that he scrubs him of his nuances, his individuality.
If Snowden's story wasn't real, Stone would have made it up. So why does Stone's movie feel so toothless?
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