The Assassination of Richard Nixon

First-time director Niels Mueller tells "the mad story of a true man" in this tragic portrait of Sam Bicke, who tried to fly an airplane into the White House in 1974.

"...Williamson. First-time director Niels Mueller bills his debut, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, "the mad story of a true..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest 2015: Assassination Classroom

Japanese students, lots of guns, and an unkillable alien teacher

"...Student-teacher relationships don't get much weirder than in Assassination Classroom...."

Sept. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Dan Gentile

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Assassination of Jesse James may be the world’s first epic of misguided hero worship.

"...Nick Cave. At two hours and 40 minutes, The Assassination of Jesse James may be the world’s first epic..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Fantastic Fest Review: Assassination Classroom: Graduation

A heartwarming conclusion to the Japanese blockbuster

"...In Assassination Classroom: Graduation, the flunkie students of Class 3-E return..."

Sept. 26, 2016 Screens Post by Dan Gentile

Assassination Nation

Dark satire lets social media tear us apart

"...these issues as parts of the same hideous whole, Assassination Nation works best when it is broad and sharp,..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Reporting an Assassination

"Parkland" director Peter Landesman on JFK research

"...If you've got a conspiracy theory about the JFK assassination, Peter Landesman doesn't want to know. The director of..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Reflections on Assassination

Trying to find some wisdom on a grim anniversary

"...historical tipping point of cultural obsession with the Kennedy assassination. Most younger people I know don't share my generation's..."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Column by Michael King

State and Local Politicians Respond to Soleimani Assassination

Officials and candidates comment on killing of Qassem Soleimani

"...“We condemn in the strongest terms the assassination by US forces of Iraqi and Iranian figures," said..."

Jan. 6, 2020 News Post by Michael King

Back in the Mirror

First-time director Niels Mueller on 'The Assassination of Richard Nixon'

"...Niels Mueller's The Assassination of Richard Nixon manages the rare trick of not..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Conspiracy

The short happy life and quick assassination of ASK

"...In 1990, we programmed a panel on the Kennedy assassination. It was so well-attended, interesting, and exciting that SXSW..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Features Feature by Louis Black

Death of a President

More sleight of hand than persuasive drama, this what-if story about the aftermath of a presidential assassination is technically seamless but dramatically hollow.

"...because one of its plot points is the fictional assassination of President George W. Bush in 2007. Talking heads..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Friend of the Family

In Thomas Mallon's new nonfiction book, the strangest figure in the JFK assassination is the most honest one.

"...To students of the JFK assassination, the strange life of Ruth Paine is yet another..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

The November Men

"...many viewings of the Zapruder film of the JFK assassination. You can go mad with conspiracy fever and, if..."

July 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

ASK: Roland Swenson

JFK symposium exposes SXSW head as CIA operative!

"...Swenson co-hosted an annual conference in Dallas called the Assassination Symposium on Kennedy, known as ASK, that drew hundreds..."

Nov. 21, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Letters at 3AM: JFK and That Hard Rain

When boomers and their offspring die out, Kennedy's assassination will have the approximate historical echo of William McKinley's

"...I didn't like what happened. Assassination is anti-democratic. And it was lousy for his kids...."

Nov. 22, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Black Cat

"...up his sleeves, most notably in our heroine's first assassination assignment, which, in both other versions, took place in..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Jackie

A portrait of the First Lady in the aftermath of JFK's assassination

"...portrait yet of Jacqueline Kennedy’s horrifying ordeal following the assassination of her husband, president John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Jackie has..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Terrible Moment

'All the Way' playwright Robert Schenkkan and its LBJ, Bryan Cranston, on JFK's assassination

"...to a memento from the wake of John Kennedy's assassination: "A very little thing, but it meant a lot..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Journey to 'Parkland'

Writer/director Peter Landesman on the untold stories of JFK's death

"...Peter Landesman started writing the script for his JFK assassination film Parkland, he knew there was still drama in..."

Oct. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Life, Death, and Dance

Robert Duvall loves to tango. Robert Duvall loves Buenos Aires. And Robert Duvall loves Luciana Pedraza, the ravishing Argentinean-born woman who plays opposite him in Assassination Tango, a film in which the screen legend somehow conflates all these things.

"...the ravishing Argentine-born woman who plays opposite him in Assassination Tango, a film in which the screen legend somehow..."

March 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

eXistenZ

An elaborate cat-and-mouse game between human reality and game reality from David Cronenberg.

"...zapped into the base of the player's spine), an assassination attempt is made on her life. She flees with..."

May 14, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

JFK

Oliver Stone gives the "lone gunman" assassination theory a run for its money.

"...bottom line is the demolition of the “lone gunman” assassination theory. On that score, Stone does a bang-up job...."

Dec. 27, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

13 Minutes

A plot to blow Hitler up goes wrong

"...man in their custody planned and carried out the assassination attempt all by himself. One man very nearly took..."

July 28, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Inferno

Hanks tours the museums of Europe trying to save the world

"...Khan is Inferno’s secret weapon. Whether ordering a faraway assassination from his floating HQ or drily doing a whack..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years

Ron Howard tackles the Beatles

"...seen through the fulcrum of such events as JFK’s assassination and the escalating war in Vietnam. With the Beatles’..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Macbeth

Bloody screen adaptation shows what Shakespeare only tells

"...in offstage action: this funeral, a battle, a royal assassination, and the domino-stacked murders that follow...."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Diverting but rarely riveting, this latest offering from the Marvel Universe kicks the can down the road some more.

"...the blue-skinned shapeshifter Mystique, née Raven (Lawrence), from an assassination that will set off a ruinous ripple effect. Send..."

May 23, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

It All Began So Beautifully ...

LBJ Library and Museum houses Austin's key connection to Kennedy's assassination

"...of historic figures in the first days after the assassination: Gerald Ford, Nellie Connally, Rose Kennedy, Martin Luther King..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

Masquerade

A galloping box-office success in its home country of South Korea, this film is a 17th century historical drama that, at heart, is really a comedy.

"...provide him with protection from the constant threat of assassination. A near-perfect doppelgänger is found in the person of..."

March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Killer Elite

Action-film icon Jason Statham is stuck in an overlong, perfunctory thriller.

"...Killer Elite is simply a series of (reasonably well-choreographed) assassination sequences. Still, that shot of Statham tied to a..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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