BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY: POTENCY – Review by Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael reviews Oliver Stone's 'Born on the Fourth of July' (1989). Published in The New Yorker, January 22, 1990
PAULINE KAEL ON OLIVER STONE’S PLATOON
Pauline Kael reviews Oliver Stone's "Platoon". Published in "The New Yorker", January 12, 1987
PLATOON: Review by Terrence Rafferty for “The Nation”
Oliver Stone’s Platoon, about a group of American infantrymen in Vietnam between 1967 and 1968, is the first Hollywood film about this country’s Southeast Asian adventure that’s just a war movie
WALL STREET (1987) – “Greed Is Good…”
“Well, ladies and gentlemen, we’re not here to indulge in fantasy, but in political and economic reality... I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them. The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed [...]