BACK, AND TO THE LEFT: Today's an appropriate day to talk about the career of Oliver Stone, with this collection of Ebert reviews as a starting point.
While recognizing that there are severe problems with Stone as a historian, I am a definite fan of him as director/provocateur. As with Coppola, I am a big fan of directors with ambition and operatic reach. Say what you will about JFK and Natural Born Killers in terms of plot, accuracy and coherence, but in terms of fully employing the director's toolkit to make an impact, there are few like Stone.
Which is not to say that I'm that interested in World Trade Center -- I'm more likely to rent United 93, which I regret missing. But that's me.
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