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- 2021
- TV-14
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 58 m
- 2021
- TV-14
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 58 m
Summary Declassified files related to President Kennedy's assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in 1963.
Directed By: Oliver Stone
Written By: James DiEugenio
- 2021
- TV-14
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 58 m
- 2021
- TV-14
- Showtime Networks
- 1 h 58 m
JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass
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Summary Declassified files related to President Kennedy's assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in 1963.
Directed By: Oliver Stone
Written By: James DiEugenio
Where to Watch
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Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Positive
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71% Mixed
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The sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes frustrating film proves that Stone, ever the professional provocateur, still has what it takes to rile an audience. Or at least make your head spin round so many times that you’ll be backward thankful for the migraine.
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass is 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. At its best, it reminds one how tightly Stone can assemble a film like this one as he makes a convincing case that some things about the assassination of JFK don’t add up.
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Generally Favorable
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Although rather a short documentary compared to the previous film, it is nicely done and reviews the newly released documents. The problem remains that 60 years after the assasination, no matter how convincing the new evidence is, very little will come out of this in in terms of resolving the murder, finding and punishing the responsible parties or abolishing respectively fixing the structures that enabled this to happen in the first place.
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This is a great follow-up to both JFK and Oliver Stone's Secret History series, which was also fascinating. Not that anyone needed much of a nudge to believe there was hinky **** goin down in the city on the JFK assassination, but this adds a lot of fuel to a long-smoldering fire. The Magic Bullet fiasco, JFK's body, and missing witness testimonies are all added bonuses to something a lot of folks have already arrived at; it was a "coup d'etat." JFK threatened the military industrial complex and the war in Vietnam. He had to go.
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Stone packs a ton of information in, then lurches to a halt; while he milks Kennedy’s mistrust of the three-letter agencies, his grasp of “what really happened” is still fundamentally guesswork. Still, he does persuade us of smoking guns out there that weren’t Oswald’s, or anywhere near the book depository.
Justice hasn't been done. The heavens haven't fallen. But 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.
Without the captivating veneer of fiction, Stone’s “JFK Revisted: Through The Looking Glass” comes off as a much more rhetorically dishonest work. And without the brio of Stone’s highbrow-Sam Fuller imperial-phase filmmaking chops, it’s merely a wan appendix.
Nobody can doubt the filmmakers’ diligence. The interviewees seem like serious-minded people. But, as has been the case for close to 60 years, 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.
Did the whole nation and its governing class go into denial after the Kennedy assassination as a way of managing their shock and grief? Perhaps. But this documentary, for all its factual material, is frustrating.
This is an attempt to tell some of the new information and context that has been made available to the public since Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK regarding the JFK assasination. Many of the presented facts are interesting and worth pondering about. Unfortunately this is a very mixed bag of various things that at least I found difficult to connect and piece together.
Problem seems to be that there's so much stuff that even the creator of this documentary film had trouble piecing it together into a cohesive narrative. One of the big omissions I felt was that the film makers completely jumped over what role did the Roscoe A. White play in the assasination of JFK.
The documentary also just kind of ends without having a summary of anykind at end. Which is kind of disappointing.
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While it has its flaws and Stone's theories are open for debate, the very least JFK Revisited does is to stimulate the viewer to ask questions about what happened in Dallas, before and afterwards.
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At this point, so many years after Kennedy's death, and even with all the time that has passed since Stone's own JFK, this feels like a documentary where the director is over-explaining stuff, and to some extent he's even rubbing his ego. But also now that I remember, JFK, Jackie their son will be coming back to life according to the qanon crazy **** so it's appropriately timed.
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Production Company
Ingenious Media,
Ixtlan Productions,
Pantagruel Productions
Release Date Nov 12, 2021
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating TV-14
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Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
