Stone's docudrama provides its audience with a highly controversial and thought-provoking depiction of the mysterious circumstances surrounding the assassination of JFK.

Rating: 8/10 (26 June 2010)

The film is a riveting marriage of fact and fiction, hypothesis and empirical proof in the edge-of-the-seat spirit of a conspiracy thriller. After John F. Kennedy's assassination, New Orleans DA Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) tries to prove that a CIA conspiracy was responsible.
JFK is flagrantly speculative but inescapably gripping, thanks to director Oliver Stone's muckracking instincts and directorial verve; it certainly entertains more than it convinces, but it's increasingly hard to disentangle what's good about the film from what's just dubious. The popularity of the film led to the passage of The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 and the formation of the U.S. Assassination Records Review Board.