Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived
Release Date: September 17, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Los Angeles TimesGary Goldstein
Director Koji Masutani has masterfully assembled a wealth of archival footage, photos and audiotapes, some of which has been recently declassified. Read full review
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TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
The film does, however, assemble an amazing array of recorded conversations and vintage newsreel, and offers up enough press conference footage to make one nostalgic for the days when an uncowed, penetrating press really did serve the public interest, and the president was a smart, inspirational and often very funny figure who could think on his feet and fearlessly take on all comers. Read full review
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Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill White
Contrary to its title, Virtual JFK is less a counter-history of the Vietnam years than a tribute to John F. Kennedy's stubborn resistance to a military that pressured him to go to war on six occasions during his short presidency. Read full review
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New York PostV.A. Musetto
It examines other crises faced by JFK - Cuba, the Berlin Wall, civil war in Laos, the insurgency in Vietnam - and finds that in each case Kennedy chose talk over tanks. (Often, he went against advice of aides and generals.) Read full review
60
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
An elegantly constructed if misleadingly titled class lecture. Read full review
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VarietyRonnie Scheib
Filmmakers underline the immediate relevance of their conclusion: In matters of war and peace, who we elect president is crucial. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Many of the film's most entertaining moments are, ironically, its most peripheral: Namely, the extensive archival clips of news conferences in which an alternately relaxed and tense Kennedy jostled with journalists Read full review
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Boston GlobeTy Burr
Most useful and enlightening as a historical tour through the major crises of the Kennedy administration. Read full review
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The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Directed by Koji Masutani, this speculative, provocative, frustrating and finally unpersuasive historical gloss races quickly and all too lightly over the major political crises that John F. Kennedy faced during his aborted presidency. Read full review
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