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

| Apr 28, 2014

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

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

It's a heartfelt, modest and well staged film about the Kennedy assassination ...

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

The monumental hand-wringing about Kennedy feels, the further we get away from the event, somehow inappropriate.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 21, 2013

As pure docudrama Parkland is a let down. As a tribute to a great political leader it's bordering on insult.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 21, 2013

Dramatically it's bitty, with, to paraphrase a great American newsman of the time, too much, too fast. But there is no denying how absorbing the tumultuous events of those four days remain.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2013

For a film about tragedy writ large, Parkland manages to convey a deeper message of reconciliation and redemption

| Nov 4, 2013

[A] howling dud.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 16, 2013

Kennedy specialists will glean nothing new, and those hoping for sobriety will flinch at the camera's intrusions.

| Oct 8, 2013

This episodic drama is set in Dallas during the three days after the JFK assassination, and some of it is highly charged.

| Original Score: B | Oct 4, 2013

As someone who clearly remembers that November afternoon in 1963, and the days that followed, I was drawn to all of the detail in "Parkland."

| Original Score: 2.1/2 | Oct 4, 2013

Somehow, all this commotion adds up to aimless inertia, in part because the movie lacks a point of view - let alone anything fresh to propose about the assassination or its peripheral players.

| Oct 4, 2013

Takes one of the most traumatizing events of the American 20th century and turns it into a trivia digest.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 4, 2013

"Parkland" expends lots of energy and expertise on re-creating these infamous events, yet it is so lacking in narrative purpose that many viewers are likely to leave muttering, "Okay...but so what?"

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 4, 2013

Parkland is history as existential despair.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 4, 2013

For those who remember that dark day, it will inevitably have impact. But this was too much of a story for one film.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 4, 2013

Fifty years after the traumatic event, the assassination of JFK is still capable of touching a raw nerve -- even in a dramatization as flat-footed as this one.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 3, 2013

There's something to be said for Landesman's attempt to limit himself to just the facts that we can all agree on. Just that much is dramatic enough and awful enough to make for a good movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2013