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

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

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

| Original Score: 5/5 | 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

Bogosian commands attention in a patented tour-de-force. Supporting performances are all vividly realized, notably Michael Wincott's drug-crazed Champlain fan invited to the studio for a tete-a-tete with the host.

| Mar 26, 2009

Champlain's distorted perspective is compelling, despite Stone's sometimes flashy direction as he attempts to wrest cinematic qualities out of the essentially stagey material.

| Feb 9, 2006

A riveting portrait of a complex man.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2005

Talk Radio... is a nearly perfect example of how not to make a movie of a play.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2004

It's midnight in America and there's a lot of angry people out there in the darkness. If that's the main point to Oliver Stone's Talk Radio, it's the only one.

| Jan 1, 2000

Talk Radio is directed by Stone with a claustrophobic intensity.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Talk Radio has the loony intensity of those impassioned conspiracy theorists who look out at the world and see patterns of corruption spreading in all directions...it's another of Stone's wake-up calls to America.

| Jan 1, 2000