Oswald's Ghost
Seventh Art Releasing | Release Date: November 30, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
In Oswald's Ghost, his vast chronicle of the JFK assassination and its cultural aftermath, Stone uses little-seen footage to assemble the events of Nov. 22, 1963, with a fascinating present-tense density. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Veteran conspiracy buffs probably won’t find much of Stone's material particularly new, but Stone’s film does serve as a neat summary for the rest of us while offering a number of intriguing insights into how conspiracy theories work and what they say about specific cultural and political climates. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Though we had just heard the name Lee Harvey Oswald, I believed he had done it alone. I still do, even more so after watching Robert Stone's meticulously researched, seemingly unbiased summary of the killing and the major conspiracy theories. Read full review
70
VarietyJoe Leydon
Oswald's Ghost impresses as a concise, intelligent and rigorously well-researched piece of work. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
Late in the film, Stone interviews Norman Mailer, a one-time conspiracy-believer who eventually wrote a book that tried to get inside Oswald's head, explaining how Oswald's story is America's story. In less than a minute, Mailer describes the documentary Stone should've made. Read full review
60
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Lee Harvey Oswald's guilt or innocence or accomplices are not the point of the film; Stone is more interested in the fact that much about the Kennedy murder is now so shrouded in myth and mystification as to be permanently unknowable, and that that fact alone has gnawed away at the self-confidence of middle-class white America ever since. Read full review
60
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
The documentary Oswald’s Ghost initially plays as yet another primer on the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the vilification of Lee Harvey Oswald. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleLeba Hertz
While trying to establish whether a conspiracy took place, the film attempts to solve the enigma that was Lee Harvey Oswald. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMichael Fox
Riveting yet ultimately unsatisfying documentary. Read full review
50
New York PostV.A. Musetto
As a history lesson, Oswald's Ghost is valuable, but don't go expecting any new revelations. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Stone covers territory all too familiar to most Americans old enough to remember the JFK assassination. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Never really decides whether it wants to concentrate on providing information or sociological analysis, with the result that it fails to fully satisfy on either level. Read full review
40
Film ThreatPhil Hall
The only obvious question that Oswald’s Ghost raises is: how come Mort Sahl wasn’t in the movie? (If you don’t get that joke, you need to brush up on your Kennedy conspiracy lessons.) Read full review
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