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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxVeteran conspiracy buffs probably won’t find much of Stone's material particularly new, but Stone’s film does serve as a neat summary for the rest of us while offering a number of intriguing insights into how conspiracy theories work and what they say about specific cultural and political climates.
- 75New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsThough we had just heard the name Lee Harvey Oswald, I believed he had done it alone. I still do, even more so after watching Robert Stone's meticulously researched, seemingly unbiased summary of the killing and the major conspiracy theories.
- 70VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonOswald's Ghost impresses as a concise, intelligent and rigorously well-researched piece of work.
- 67The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayLate in the film, Stone interviews Norman Mailer, a one-time conspiracy-believer who eventually wrote a book that tried to get inside Oswald's head, explaining how Oswald's story is America's story. In less than a minute, Mailer describes the documentary Stone should've made.
- 60SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirLee Harvey Oswald's guilt or innocence or accomplices are not the point of the film; Stone is more interested in the fact that much about the Kennedy murder is now so shrouded in myth and mystification as to be permanently unknowable, and that that fact alone has gnawed away at the self-confidence of middle-class white America ever since.
- The documentary Oswald’s Ghost initially plays as yet another primer on the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the vilification of Lee Harvey Oswald.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleWhile trying to establish whether a conspiracy took place, the film attempts to solve the enigma that was Lee Harvey Oswald.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceRiveting yet ultimately unsatisfying documentary.
- 50New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoAs a history lesson, Oswald's Ghost is valuable, but don't go expecting any new revelations.
- 40Film ThreatPhil HallFilm ThreatPhil HallThe only obvious question that Oswald’s Ghost raises is: how come Mort Sahl wasn’t in the movie? (If you don’t get that joke, you need to brush up on your Kennedy conspiracy lessons.)