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Oswald's Ghost Review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    62

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 100

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    In Oswald's Ghost, his vast chronicle of the JFK assassination and its cultural aftermath, Stone uses little-seen footage to assemble the events of Nov. 22, 1963, with a fascinating present-tense density.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

    Stone covers territory all too familiar to most Americans old enough to remember the JFK assassination.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Village Voice

    Riveting yet ultimately unsatisfying documentary.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

    Never really decides whether it wants to concentrate on providing information or sociological analysis, with the result that it fails to fully satisfy on either level.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    The New York Times

    The documentary Oswald's Ghost initially plays as yet another primer on the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the vilification of Lee Harvey Oswald.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety Joe Leydon

    Oswald's Ghost impresses as a concise, intelligent and rigorously well-researched piece of work.

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