BaltSun Critic: Stone's 'W.' a 'Train Wreck', Script Like Rehashed Mo

Ken Shepherd
October 17th, 2008 2:52 PM
Finally a movie review that takes on Oliver Stone's "W." on its cinematic merits or rather the lack thereof. Far from being "illustrated journalism" as Time's Richard Corliss lamented or "sunny and sympathetic" history as Newsweek's Alan Brinkley argued, it's simply an "old-fashioned train wreck," concluded Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow in his October 16 review.The film critic -- who gave the film…