JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

2021

1h 58m

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Thirty years after his film JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy -- the most consequential American murder mystery of the twentieth century. Joined by Oscar-winning narrators Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland, as well as a distinguished team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents compelling evidence that in the Kennedy case "conspiracy theory" is now "conspiracy fact."

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Although it's frustratingly casual with the line between facts and conjecture, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass reaffirms Oliver Stone's gifts as an engaging raconteur.

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Barry Hertz

Globe and Mail

03/03/2022

The sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes frustrating film proves that Stone, ever the professional provocateur, still has what it takes to rile an audience.

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

11/26/2021

2/5

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.

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Danny Leigh

Financial Times

11/25/2021

3/5

Stone being Stone, all is instantly conclusive. As usual too, the distinction is not always clear between declassified papers and assorted, malevolent stuff.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

10/20/2024

3.5/4

Now as then, it’s best to ignore the windbags, who methinks doth protest too much anyway. JFK (1991), starring Kevin Costner, is an often extraordinary movie.

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

11/26/2022

7/10

Stone doesn't seek to provide answers to the Kennedy assassination, but rather to vindicate with a magnifying glass the spectrum of questions about the powers that played a key role in the disastrous episode of American history. [Full review in Spanish]

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Taylor Baker

Drink in the Movies

11/18/2022

78/100

Pieces of evidence like this ... and covered up eyewitness testimony leave one frustrated, but thankful to Stone for assembling an easily digestible, high quality, dummy-proof piece of journalism that ultimately provides more questions than answers.

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Pablo D

@RT05471495 04/02/2025

Very telling and a must see!

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Nick A

@RT07389876 01/31/2025

Incredible work, thank you!

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John R

@RT41774777 09/22/2024

The JFK assassination was a nodal point in US history. Oliver Stones's JFK Revisited really explores some of the issues raised in his 1991 JFK film that critics raised with the film and is a very good response. I have little doubt that the CIA was involved in the assassination. The CIA has been instrumental in the overthrow of many democratic governments since it's creation, from Arbenz in Guatemala to Mosaddegh in Iran to Lumumba in the Congo, to De Gaul in France. All these were just in the 1950s and 60s. The Dulles brothers were involved in many of these travesties. The true nature of the US is glimpsed in this film. Democracy is not what the US or the CIA is about. It is about empire and you can see this through many of Oliver Stones films. Stone has done a great service to freedom loving people with these JFK films and his antiwar films. Long live Oliver Stone! Please note, there is a 4 hour series called JFK Revisited Destiny Betrayed that is an expanded version of this 2 hr version.

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Jacob N

@RT03284554 11/26/2023

Conspiracies and nonsense.

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Alerik A

@Ricky754 09/07/2023

The documentary was interesting and talks about one of my favorite presidents of all time.

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Ronald J

@RT72697377 06/10/2023

Thorough and well done job of showing the holes in the Warren Report and the falsehood that Oswald acted alone. Oliver Stone is a brilliant patriot!

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Synopsis

Thirty years after his film JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy -- the most consequential American murder mystery of the twentieth century. Joined by Oscar-winning narrators Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland, as well as a distinguished team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents compelling evidence that in the Kennedy case "conspiracy theory" is now "conspiracy fact."

Director: Oliver Stone
Producer: Robert S. Wilson
Screenwriter: James DiEugenio
Production Co: Ingenious Media, Pantagruel Productions, Ixtlan Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 22, 2021
Runtime: 1h 58m