Snowden
Snowden is a 2016 biographical spy thriller film following the untold of Edward Snowden the NSA whistle-blower.
22 November 1966, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
12 September 1974, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
22 July 1967, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
21 June 1983, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA
April 03, 2017
A gripping précis of what Edward Snowden learned at the CIA and NSA, why he went public, and why it matters. Entertaining yet also deeply unsettling.
January 25, 2017
Joseph Gordon Levitt gives a stolid and precise performance in the lead role , but Stone warms him up by focusing on Snowden's long-term romantic relationship with dancer Lindsay Mills (Shailene Woodley).
September 22, 2016
As Snowden, Gordon-Levitt is so muted, so cloistered, that it can be easy to miss that it's a very good performance.
December 31, 2016
Depending your politics, Snowden's revelations about the US secret electronic surveillance system make him a patriot or a traitor. Stone is so determined to show him as the former, he also makes him a bit of a bore.
September 16, 2016
Stone is so intent on making Snowden an icon that he scrubs him of his nuances, his individuality.
September 26, 2016
Stone's flashy filmmaking, including grand set pieces in enormous secret facilities, can't conceal his flat, thin, psychology-free depiction of a modest and self-sacrificing hero who single-handedly changed the politics of our time.
September 16, 2016
If Snowden's story wasn't real, Stone would have made it up. So why does Stone's movie feel so toothless?
September 16, 2016
It's a fawning piece of work.
January 26, 2017
Stone champions mavericks who challenge the status quo in the name of justice and the ideals of the American experiment and Snowden is his kind of American hero, the moral voice in an amoral world...
December 31, 2016
Stone explains Snowden with ease: he turned whistleblower because The Man went after the woman he loved. The problem, as in Citizenfour, is that Snowden is telling a story that isn't finished yet.
November 15, 2016
Stone collects all of the silliest clichés about computing in a grab-bag aesthetic that tries every kind of pointlessly filtered or grainy look, but can't seem to fake a convincing webcam shot.
January 13, 2017
"Snowden" is a film that should frighten us, but instead it seems to garner shrugs of "yeah man, it sucks."
