Snowden (2016) - Critic Reviews - Page 12 of 12

221-236 of 236 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 11 Sep 2016

[Oliver Stone] combin[es] skill and provocation with a passion to entertain in this riveting portrait of young American fugitive Edward Snowden…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Sam Adams (514) for BBC.com (1,500) on 11 Sep 2016

This film glosses over the thorniest issues in play -- both in terms of the US government's actions and the unintended consequences of Snowden's…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Stefan Pape (613) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 10 Sep 2016

An amazing story counts for very little when told in such a clumsy, unsubtle and conventional way…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 10 Sep 2016

Stone doesn’t care about Snowden as much as he does the ramifications of what his employers accomplished…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Prairie Miller (985) for WBAI Radio (118) on 10 Sep 2016

Both Stone's cat and mouse intrigue and Snowden's Red State/Blue State online dating object of desire delight at watching his 'inner liberal…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Chris Bumbray (988) for JoBlo's Movie Emporium (1,959) on 10 Sep 2016

SNOWDEN is neither the triumphant return-to-form Stone fans might have been hoping for, nor is it as real miss…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Oleg Ivanov (57) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Sep 2016

The film depicts Edward Snowden's ethical dilemmas in a political vacuum that disregards America's increasingly complex security threats…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 09 Sep 2016

The film would have been better served by a healthy degree of Oliver Stone's characteristic urgency and outrage…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Benjamin Lee (469) for Guardian (4,584) on 09 Sep 2016

In his dry and uninvolving dramatic take, Stone has made a film aimed at breaking out Snowden’s story to the masses but it’s made with…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 09 Sep 2016

It somehow manages to make a fascinating, utterly contemporary narrative feel like old news…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Allen Salkin (30) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 09 Sep 2016

You might not agree with Stone that the man is a hero, but you probably do want to see the film so you can compute what the whole uproar was about…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Sep 2016

It’s the most important and galvanizing political drama by an American filmmaker in years…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Sep 2016

As a piece of filmed entertainment Snowden is certainly a watchable endeavor, but Stone and screenwriter Kieran Fitzgerald’s script is often…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Stephen Farber (295) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 09 Sep 2016

Stone’s direction is measured, methodical, and totally lacking in the fire and flamboyance that sometimes electrified and sometimes ruined…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 09 Sep 2016

What made Snowden so compelling in the excellent 2014 documentary Citizenfour reduces him, in the context of an Oliver Stone thriller, to a…

Read Review

Review of Snowden (2016)

By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 08 Sep 2016

For a film that’s so politically risky — Stone hasn’t named names and pointed fingers (at both sides of the aisle, incidentally) in a…

Read Review

Page 12 of 12

More reviews of this movie:

Snowden (2016) Movie Reviews (929)
Snowden (2016) User Reviews (693)

Melissa Leo - Top 5 movies:

Zachary Quinto - Top 5 movies:

Scott Eastwood - Top 5 movies:

Movies you might like:

The Pursuit of Happyness

2006

76%938 Reviews

The Queen

2006

75%877 Reviews

Viva Zapata!

1952

72%69 Reviews

Michael Collins

1996

71%413 Reviews

The Miracle Worker

1962

81%203 Reviews

Freedom Writers

2007

76%610 Reviews

Electric Slide

2014

39%7 Reviews

Blood Diamond

2006

78%921 Reviews

The Net

1995

59%447 Reviews

Frida

2002

73%643 Reviews

Lane 1974

2017

68%6 Reviews

Raging Bull

1980

82%862 Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Where the Crawdads Sing

2022

63%92 Reviews

The Prodigy

2019

53%39 Reviews

Ford v Ferrari

2019

81%171 Reviews

Midsommar

2019

69%207 Reviews

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

85%233 Reviews

The Invitation

2022

47%33 Reviews

No Hard Feelings

2023

65%90 Reviews

Oppenheimer

2023

85%310 Reviews

Nope

2022

68%181 Reviews

Talk to Me

2023

74%83 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Snowden

2016

68%929 Reviews

Sometimes in April

2005

79%185 Reviews

Death Wish

2018

59%913 Reviews

Persepolis

2007

85%762 Reviews

A Haunted House 2

2014

41%388 Reviews

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

2004

73%558 Reviews

Encanto

2021

73%156 Reviews

The Guest

2014

72%889 Reviews

Paths of Glory

1957

87%725 Reviews

Bandslam

2009

63%493 Reviews