Movies directed by Oliver Stone

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Alexander

To sum up Alexander in three words, I would choose the following: three-hour miscalculation. Although some aspects of Oliver Stone's sword-and-sandals epic are worthy of mention (and even praise), they are dwarfed by the missteps and examples of b...

Run Time: 2:55
U.S. Release Date: 2004-11-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, ...
Any Given Sunday

It is well known that superlative film editing can save a mediocre motion picture. Sadly, the opposite can also be true. A case in point is Any Given Sunday, which, despite a potentially engaging story and a number of good performances, is at tim...

Run Time: 2:45
U.S. Release Date: 1999-12-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Al Pacino, Lela Rochon, Lawrence Taylor, ...
Born on the Fourth of July

Born on the Fourth of July is the middle chapter of Oliver Stone's so-called "Vietnam Trilogy." Begun with Platoon and concluded with Heaven and Earth, these movies are linked only by their connection to the war; they have no common characters. P...

Run Time: 2:18
U.S. Release Date: 1989-12-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, ...
Heaven and Earth

With Heaven and Earth, Oliver Stone has completed his so-called "Vietnam Trilogy" - three films that examine different aspects of the war that, to this point, has provided the centerpiece of Stone's filmmaking career. The story begins in the vi...

Run Time: 2:18
U.S. Release Date: 1993-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen, ...
Natural Born Killers

Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors, and was rem...

Run Time: 1:59
U.S. Release Date: 1994-08-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY/THRILLER
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., ...
Nixon

It's always a tricky proposition to make a motion picture based on recent history -- and the more public the episode, the more difficult it is for the film maker to balance drama with accuracy. This is especially true when that film maker is Olive...

Run Time: 3:10
U.S. Release Date: 1995-12-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, David Paymer, E.G. Marshall, ...
Platoon

Since the end of the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, numerous motion pictures have attempted, with varying degrees of success, to capture one or more aspects of the most contentious American conflict of the 20th century. From this crop, three stand...

Run Time: 2:00
U.S. Release Date: 1986-12-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: WAR
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Reggie Johnson, ...
Savages

Savages is a drug-fueled crime delirium that doesn't break much new ground in the genre but offers a volatile concoction of violence, heroism, and amorality that is compulsively watchable. The director is Oliver Stone, a filmmaker often associated ...

Run Time: 2:10
U.S. Release Date: 2012-07-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Profanity, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Blake Lively, ...
Snowden

Few would debate that the story of Edward Snowden’s life is as compelling as it is controversial. Based on Oliver Stone’s biopic, Snowden, it would also seem to be inherently non-cinematic. By opting to go with a straightforward account o...

Run Time: 2:14
U.S. Release Date: 2016-09-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Rhys Ifans, ...
W.

It would be grossly unfair to criticize W. as a hatchet job - it's too clumsy for such a description to apply. This movie frequently feels like the shotgun marriage of Nightline and Saturday Night Live. Superficial, uninformative, and inert, this...

Run Time: 2:09
U.S. Release Date: 2008-10-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Josh Brolin, James Cromwell, Elizabeth Banks, ...