Parkland only works if you see the film for what it’s doing. Landesman is only giving you glimpses of the situation from many different characters and perspectives.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 15, 2024

The film finds its strength in the quintet of lesser known players, especially Zapruder and, oddly enough, Oswald's stoic brother, who's cast in a heroic, almost Kennedy-esque, light.

| Aug 7, 2019

What might have made a terrific television series is instead a mediocre - if historically interesting - film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2019

Parkland is little more than the audible whimper of a people ruminating over a great tragedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2019

The acting, by stars such as Zac Efron, Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton and James Badge Dale, is low-key and magnificent.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 31, 2017

The performances are powerful, the authenticity is admirable, and the tone remains objective in its depiction of events throughout.

| Original Score: B | Jun 27, 2016

A ( ... ) pragmatic, four-day, fly-on-the-wall view of Dallas when the 20th Century's most documented death arguably facilitated the birth of 24-hour rolling news, citizen journalism and You Tube.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2014

Had Landesman spent a bit more time on his characters and narrative, he might have made a more watchable movie.

| Apr 28, 2014

I suppose each generation gets the JFK movie it deserves. We should feel lucky to get this one.

| Apr 16, 2014

Parkland is a movie of simple motives. It doesn't waste time with pomp or theory, and the material is acted by those who connect with the characters like reflections in the mirror.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 24, 2014

Ultimately Parkland is not thought-provoking, inspiring or even brave enough to be offensive, but it does raise some interesting scenarios and is full of some very solid acting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 2, 2014

While not bound for classic status, the film still manages to capture a moment in time that changed our country.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2013

The revelations are unshowy, the emotional clout is stealthy, and JFKologists can rest easy knowing that the project neither engages with nor contradicts their pet preoccupations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 27, 2013

Parkland remains a bystander in the already overcrowded field of films about the events of November 1963.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 24, 2013

A personal history of a very public disaster that fails to hit as hard as it might as the voices chosen aren't strong enough as written to speak for the people who were there on the day President Kennedy came to town.

| Nov 23, 2013

It's slick and well acted (by Paul Giamatti, Zac Efron and Billy Bob Thornton, among others), but this attempt to make new sense of the death of JFK feels staggeringly pointless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 22, 2013

A sad tale well told.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2013

Kennedy's death is dramatically reflected via the emergency room emotions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 22, 2013

You can't help feeling that there's more to this story than ever meets the eye.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 22, 2013

It does lose a sense of narrative urgency after the grisly demise of Kennedy but fascinates to the end.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2013