Click here to copy URL

JFK

J.F.K. (JFK)

1991

Oliver Stone

Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Joe Pesci ...

7.5

28,936

Drama. Mystery Real-life New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) sets out to investigate the murder of U.S. president John F. Kennedy. In the process, he discovers an intricate conspiracy involving a group of decadent gay men led by shady businessman Clay Shaw (Tommy Lee Jones), and numerous other co-conspirators, from the Mafia and right-wing Cubans to the CIA and future president Lyndon B. Johnson. In the meantime, Garrison ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The film's insurmountable problem is the vast amount of material it fails to make coherent sense of."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Stone has turned what he considers the crime of the century into a disturbing anomaly -- a dishonest search for truth."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Hypnotically watchable. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"A riveting marriage of fact and fiction."	POS
United States	Variety	"Costner may not resemble the real Garrison much ... but the actor, in a low-key but forceful performance, nicely conveys the requisite grit, curiosity and fearlessness."	POS

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.