JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass Reviews
Now as then, it’s best to ignore the windbags, who methinks doth protest too much anyway. JFK (1991), starring Kevin Costner, is an often extraordinary movie.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 20, 2024
Stone doesn't seek to provide answers to the Kennedy assassination, but rather to vindicate with a magnifying glass the spectrum of questions about the powers that played a key role in the disastrous episode of American history. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 26, 2022
Pieces of evidence like this ... and covered up eyewitness testimony leave one frustrated, but thankful to Stone for assembling an easily digestible, high quality, dummy-proof piece of journalism that ultimately provides more questions than answers.
| Original Score: 78/100 | Nov 18, 2022
It can't surpass Seinfeld's "Magic Lugey," episode. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2022
The sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes frustrating film proves that Stone, ever the professional provocateur, still has what it takes to rile an audience.
| Mar 3, 2022
The doc is a truly riveting sit. Stone remains just as committed to seeking the truth as he was three decades ago.
| Original Score: A | Dec 11, 2021
we are left with a jumble of loosely connected discrepancies that will do little to persuade those who expect everyday existence to be just that chaotic.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 26, 2021
Stone being Stone, all is instantly conclusive. As usual too, the distinction is not always clear between declassified papers and assorted, malevolent stuff.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 25, 2021
This documentary, for all its factual material, is frustrating.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 24, 2021
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass may contain some truths, but they're buried beneath so much excitable speculation that it's impossible to firmly grasp them.
| Nov 24, 2021
While 'JFK Revisited' does have some points to make and its conclusions about the impact that JFK's murder had on global geopolitics, it can't be said that it's remotely as enthralling or compelling as 'JFK' was.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 23, 2021
Skilfully prodding and probing at the edges of America's greatest crime scene, Oliver Stone reinforces the argument that this was far from an open-and-shut case.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2021
For the casual viewer, this dive into a mass of meticulous research may be too dense, but it's a potent addendum to Stone's magnificent opus.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2021
We may never have the truth, but like Fox Mulder on "The X-Files," Oliver Stone wants to believe.
| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Nov 17, 2021
An exhaustive and sometimes exhausting documentary, a film that can sometimes feel like it's so packed with information and detail that Stone has lost the path through this dense forest of conspiracy theories.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 12, 2021
An extremely rigorous and amazingly-interesting film.
| Sep 21, 2021
This two-hour film races by, feeling like a potently told murder mystery in search of the truth. Whether we ever get the latter is up for debate, but Stone's persistence is heroic.
| Original Score: B+ | Aug 20, 2021
To the extent that "JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass" has a reason to exist, it's to make space for Stone's JFK crusading in a contemporary political sphere that's much more receptive to conspiracy theory.
| Original Score: C | Jul 20, 2021
Stone's indefatigable efforts at unearthing evidence and holding it up to the light for intensive examination properly keeps the case for the prosecution alive, rather than letting it sink forever and unchanged into the archives.
| Jul 15, 2021
Stone's work does not seek to place certainties, more importantly, it tries to place questions at the center of the discussion, which with the right fire, can make immaculate statues explode in time. [Full Review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2021