Oliver Stone frequently drives me nuts, but he’s a technical master, and I enjoyed JFK — even at the endurance-testing director’s-cut length of 206 minutes. Okay, the closing arguments sequence at the end felt far too long, and Costner is no match for a bayou accent, but Stone gets so much information into the movie, and while it’s not quite effortless, it’s not nearly as heavy-handed as you’d expect, either from him or from the subject matter, and it’s shot like a dance. Thought-provoking and disturbing stuff, particularly on the eve of war. In other news, Gary Oldman is totally hot as Lee Harvey Oswald, which is really wrong of me to think. Sorry.

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