Matthew Dancona

History now

Two films on release show how brilliantly and how badly film can capture recent history. In Obama week, Oliver Stone’s W ought to have been the ideal Friday night flick, and, being a fan of his magnificently paranoid series of US political movies, from Salvador via JFK to Nixon, I had high hopes.

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