Snowden

'Snowden:' Oliver Stone, minus the histrionics, in his best political pic.

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Snowden’s actions might be heroic, but he’s no hero here. He’s the lightning rod for a continuing conversation.

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If Edward Snowden didn’t exist, Oliver Stone might have invented him. One can imagine a Stone film about a former employee of the U.S. government who becomes disillusioned with his country when he learns the depth of its deceit.

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Also complicating matters is the fact Stone’s direction and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle visuals give the film a studio gloss that is simply too slick to make the real life events feel grounded in any way.

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Snowden can’t match the nervous energy of its real-life subject.

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Set aside your visions of histrionic, paranoid fireworks. Oliver Stone's whistleblower biopic Snowden finds the director in an unusually somber and controlled mood, perhaps because of the introverted, awkward nature of Edward Snowden himself.

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Mr. Stone has made an honorable and absorbing contribution to the imaginative record of our confusing times. He tells a story torn from slightly faded headlines, filling in some details you may have forgotten, and discreetly embellishing the record in the service of drama and suspense.

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The NSA whistleblower’s story is one of the most compelling public scandals of the past decade — and its high-wire mix of government malfeasance and international intrigue sounds like it was practically invented for a filmmaker who undoubtedly lists “Speaking truth to power” at the very top of his LinkedIn profile.

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It's fairly absorbing though, increasingly, a bit of an eye-roller, and it's designed, photographed and edited to make you itchy with paranoia.

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Toronto 2016: Stone names the right (and left) names in this biopic of the whistle-blower, but his storytelling style lacks punch.

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Oliver Stone's whistleblower movie plays it safe.

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Controversial director takes on the NSA's Public Enemy No. 1, only to stick to the surface and buries the provocation.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt heads an all-star cast in Oliver Stone's version of the life of controversial whistleblower Edward Snowden.

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Whatever you think of Edward Snowden as a person, his story is tailor-made for the likes of director Oliver Stone and his conspiracy-theory lens.

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It depicts Snowden's ethical dilemmas in a political vacuum that disregards America’s complex security threats.

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The director’s dramatic retelling of the NSA whistleblower’s rise to infamy boasts a strong central performance from Joseph Gordon-Levitt but its attempts to pander to a multiplex crowd are misjudged.

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Oliver Stone bombs again with his true-life spy tale ‘Snowden’.

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Snowden is mostly flat, overlong, unfocused and didactic.

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