a compelling fictional documentary featuring a riveting performance from character actor Barry
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11/17/02
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Interview with the Assassin (2002)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:38
Rotten:19
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Barry is compellingly creepy as the self-named assassin.
Theatrical Release:Nov 15, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: To many people, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy remains one of the greatest mysteries in American history. Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone? Was he a scapegoat in a conspiratorial... [More]
Starring: John F. Kennedy, Raymond J. Barry, Dylan Haggerty, Renee Faia
Director: Neil Burger
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Reviews for Interview with the Assassin
While Interview With the Assassin has a nicely nuanced performance from the veteran character actor Barry, it also has tonal problems.
11/15/02
Top CriticThis cinema verite speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy may have been inspired by Blair Witch, but it takes its techniques into such fresh territory that the film never feels derivative.
11/15/02
Top CriticBy the end, the flick can't support its intriguing premise and ends up like a shell casing clanging on pavement: more hollow than whole.
11/15/02
Few of the increasingly far-fetched events that first-time writer-director Neil Burger follows up with are terribly convincing, which is a pity, considering Barry's terrific performance.
11/15/02
Top CriticMore of an intriguing curiosity than a gripping thriller.
11/15/02
[Has] an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it’s all true.
11/14/02
The film's best trick is the way that it treats conspiracy as a kind of political Blair Witch, a monstrous murk that haunts us precisely because it can never be seen.
11/14/02
Top CriticA cleverly crafted but ultimately hollow mockumentary.
11/14/02
Resourceful and ingenious entertainment.
11/14/02
Top CriticWhether softening his military cadences with a touch of the South or shimmying down the outside wall of a motel, the veteran character actor [Barry] goes a long way toward padding what is a clever if fundamentally minor conceit.
11/14/02
A fascinating and fun film.
11/14/02
As ex-Marine Walter, who may or may not have shot Kennedy, actor Raymond J. Barry is perfectly creepy and believable.
11/14/02
Never quite transcends jokester status ... and the punchline doesn't live up to Barry's dead-eyed, perfectly chilled delivery.
11/12/02
Top CriticAn achingly enthralling premise, the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses.
11/08/02
This schlock shocker, at once blunt and fine tuned, is a revealing sendup of America's peculiar paranoid affair with gun love culture and tabloid mythology.
11/07/02
The film has a difficult time shaking its Blair Witch Project real-time roots.
10/29/02
Interview with the Assassin impresses most with a super-creepy home-invasion sequence and Berry's fabulous, seething performance.
10/08/02
May reawaken discussion of the Kennedy assassination but this fictional film looks made for cable rather than for the big screen.
09/25/02
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