For 23 years the world has been quoting Oliver Stone's Wall Street. You know the line: "Greed is good." But few people appear to have hung around for the end of that film, which featured Michael Douglas's iconic Gordon Gekko...... more »
FilmCritic entries tagged "Oliver Stone"
As President Bush's second term winds down and the race for 2008 spins at fevered pace, now is the time to make a statement -- reflecting on the failures of the current administration and projecting our hopes for the next....... more »
History has not been much kinder to Nixon the movie than it was to Nixon the man. Grossing under $14 million domestically, the $50 million movie was an enormous box office flop (what 1995-era family wouldn't want to go catch...... more »
Yeah, Michael Caine made horror. In fact, it's hard to imagine anything more terrifying from the early '80s than that creepy, lopped-off hand crawling around and strangling people as Caine's ex-comic book artist (who lost his hand in a gruesome...... more »
I figure most of us thought The Doors was plenty of movie at 138 minutes. Little did we realize that one of Oliver Stone's least favorably received movies would call for a two-disc DVD set with 43 minutes of deleted...... more »
Oliver Stone's World Trade Center is a victim of bad timing and a blockbuster mindset. The heroism of September 11, 2001 is still fresh in the minds of millions of Americans, but so is the terror and unease of that...... more »
Here's the movie that made Jeremy Irons such a memorable villain. (Well, this and Dead Ringers.) And it's all true: Claus von Bulow was convicted of nearly murdering his ultra-rich wife (Glenn Close), who lay in a coma after a...... more »
'Oh, Billy!' Alan Parker's greatest achievement is probably this film, a harrowing -- and infamous -- account of an American who foolishly tries to smuggle home drugs after his visit to Turkey. He's quickly made an example of and tossed...... more »
Once upon a time, Mickey Rourke was a major Hollywood player, and Year of the Dragon finds him in one of his most respectable leading roles, the last film he made before 9 1/2 Weeks got everyone a little scared...... more »
'Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the women!' When it comes to the great lines (and mottos) of cinema, it doesn't get much better than this. Arnold Schwarzenegger's second most well-known role is...... more »
