Talk Radio‘s perpetually watchable vibe is heightened by Stone’s stylish visuals and a series of top-notch performances...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2022

Stone and Bogosian do an excellent job of demonstrating how a figure like Barry attracts and repels people at the same time, and they convince you that Barry thrives in the atmosphere of venomous paranoia he creates.

| Original Score: B | Aug 31, 2022

Of all the new movies, Talk Radio aims to be the most controversial. Oddly enough, it is the least interesting-full of sound, fury and insignificance.

| Oct 11, 2019

Yet despite its faults this is a strikingly intelligent film, which keeps its chilly grip to the end.

| Apr 11, 2019

[Bogosian gives] a biting, energetic, get-under-your-skin performance -- the daring centerpiece of this impressive, thought-provoking film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 7, 2019

Talk Radio is a powerful movie, but a bit self-defeating in the relentlessness with which it hammers away at its theme.

| Jan 5, 2018

The monologues are chilling, but too many subplots interfere with them.

| Original Score: B | May 14, 2015

The film has a purposefully repellent but fascinating quality. Bogosian`s performance, based on his stage play, is spectacularly demented.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 13, 2015

As a director, Stone has a way of merging with the point of view of his protagonists, which is to say that his films are as jittery, wired-up and fragmented as they are.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 13, 2015

The overall effect is disturbing yet mesmerizing; most of the movie takes place in the radio studio while the hero is on the air, and the moral questions raised by his incendiary brand of broadcasting are left provocatively open.

| Mar 13, 2015

Not to put too fine a point on it, Bogosian is prickly, irritable, alienating and overwhelming. Underwhelming, however, is the way that director Oliver Stone has taken monologuist Bogosian's intimate Off-Broadway play and "opened it up."

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 13, 2015

Talk Radio is an exhaustively and exhaustingly unpleasant portrait of an unpleasant guy.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 13, 2015

Oliver Stone's Talk Radio makes you laugh, makes you mad and keeps you edgily watching for the killers in the shadows.

| Mar 13, 2015

Just how far can Barry go? That`s what stupified audiences will begin to wonder at the outset of this riveting drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 13, 2015

If you think you're unshockable, see this film and then see what you think.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 13, 2015

Talk Radio has all the charm of a conversation with Morton Downey Jr. and Geraldo Rivera. It's fascinating without being likable. It's exploitative, mean-spirited and angry... and very compelling.

| Mar 13, 2015

Powerfully directed by Oliver Stone, whose swirling camera transforms a radio studio into a white-hot caldron of words and emotions.

| Mar 13, 2015

Stone wants more. In Salvador and Platoon he found drama to match his message; here he must invent tragedy to suit his spleen.

| Mar 13, 2015

Stone's hyperkinetic direction keeps you riveted. He stalks every move Champlain makes around the studio as he revs up bigots, druggies, sex fiends and religious fanatics whom he then viciously puts down.

| Mar 13, 2015

An underrated movie, Talk Radio has matured into a strong reflection on the nature of celebrity. Oliver Stone hasn't made many better films.

| Mar 13, 2015