A Great American Black Comedy

Rating: 10/10 (11 March 2011)

Beautifully directed, photographed and edited, well acted--even with some notably odd Southern accents and written with an eye toward the absurd and Gothic, JFK ranks as one of the best American political satires since Dr. Strangelove. Jim Garrison's summation of the "case" is one of the funniest set pieces since Chaplin ate his boot or Slim Pickens (in Dr. Strangelove) went through the Air Force survival kit for his bomber crew. Of course, if you attempt to take it as history, you run up against what another great writer/director, James Cameron, said: "Oliver Stone has an interesting philosophy. His view is that history is so f...ed up, it's a consensus hallucination. So he will create an equal but opposite untruth to try to counteract the untruth that we live with. It's a BS theory."