by Francis Friel, The Projectionist

Oliver Stone's JFK is all a lie. I don't mean the overall theme of the piece, or even any one individual element of the whole. It's a question of character. Everyone in the film is operating under false pretenses (even, at least as far as wrangling public perception to achieve his goals, Jim Garrison, played by Kevin Costner). In compiling evidence of a conspiracy to murder the president, Stone throws in every known theory on record, streamlines them all into a cohesive narrative, and outlines them using the book by the real-life Garrison, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy.