Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

gets in its own way by not knowing what kind of story it's telling, and by not knowing whose story it's telling

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 2, 2011

so absurd and convoluted that even JFK's legacy can't subdue its preposterousness

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 22, 2009

An earnest, fictional coming-of-age story is squeezed from a bitter, true-life local tragedy. And it works.

| Mar 13, 2009

Out of its mind at a deep, essential level, An American Affair plays its dubious scenario with a straight face that makes the silly thing quite watchable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 13, 2009

The title sums up the bland, unimaginative and cliche-laden thriller/coming-of-age tale.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 12, 2009

Before An American Affair is over, you can be sure that Adam will learn a very familiar life lesson.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Mar 8, 2009

There are scenes that work here and there, but regrettably not nearly enough to hold the film together. In the end, this affair is definitely not one to remember.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 6, 2009

Painfully contrived

| Mar 2, 2009

Start to finish, [the film] makes absolutely no sense.

Full Review | Mar 2, 2009

Turns out An American Affair needed more than a name change to save itself from embarrassment.

Full Review | Mar 2, 2009

Even the famous M Street stairs from "The Exorcist" are out of place in the climax of this lightweight movie.

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 1, 2009

The most compelling moment comes from archival footage.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 27, 2009

It's all presented so earnestly... that you barely realize at the time how preposterous it all is. Intrigue! Cubans! The Bay of Pigs! JFK! It's the coming-of-age tale filtered through the mind of Oliver Stone,

| Feb 27, 2009

This is not, by any reasonable definition of the term, a professional film, even though several experienced and established actors have been inveigled to inhabit it

| Feb 27, 2009

Even Oliver Stone would giggle.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2009

Gretchen Mol, lounging semi-nude as she smokes near an open Georgetown window, would spark any young man's curiosity and recklessness. But the assassination story line is absurd.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2009

An implausible drama about some Washington D.C. people plotting around the time of the assassination of JFK.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 27, 2009

A captivating, witty and poignant drama. Gretchen Mol sizzles.

| Original Score: 8.25/10 | Feb 27, 2009

JFK meets Notes on a Scandal meets Rear Window? An American Affair has some promise and potential, but its main ideas remain messy and undeveloped.

| Feb 27, 2009