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Snowden is a 2016 American-German biographical political thriller film directed by Oliver Stone and written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald. The film is based on the books The Snowden Files by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena. The film stars an ensemble cast including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Scott Eastwood, Logan Marshall-Green, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, LaKeith Lee Stanfield, Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage. Filming began on February 16, 2015 in Munich, Germany.

Snowden had a screening at Comic-Con on July 21, 2016 and is scheduled to be released in the United States on September 16, 2016, by Open Road Films and on September 22 in Germany.

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Tue Sep 13, 2016 11:56 am
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It's sort of weird what has happened to Oliver Stone over the years. I don't know if getting older has made him soft or what, but his latest, Snowden, has a very low-key political simmer that is unlike most of his earlier films. This is a well-made movie for the most part, with a solid performance by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but it does feel like it was calling out for more of a pronounced thumbprint than it actually has. It's also a bit too long with a few too many extraneous scenes (several of which involve Snowden's relationship with girlfriend Lindsay Mills, although Shailene Woodley does a good job elevating the role beyond "stock supportive/concerned girlfriend"). That said, it's probably worth seeing at some point, if not in theaters. B-


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After a rather prolonged dry spell—W. fluctuates from ill-considered first draft of history to borderline Saturday Night Live sketch; Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is entertaining in the moment, but soft and a pale companion to the first; and Savages fails to turn a downright indulgent amount of sex, sadism, and drugs into more than a modest diversion—Oliver Stone returns to form with the agitprop biopic Snowden. A stylish dramatization of one of the most hotly debated chapters in recent American history, the film opens with Edward Snowden's failed bid to join the Special Forces and then depicts his prodigious career in both the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. A career which, of course, ended when he boldly chose to reveal a secret and arguably extralegal global-surveillance program to the media, precipitating a move to Moscow for asylum. Stone is clearly engaged with and inspired by his subject, and he presents a persuasive-if-hagiographic case for Snowden as a flawed, but moral and ultimately courageous patriot, aided by a credible and subdued performance by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. And the treatise on the right to privacy versus the desire for security is delivered via an involving spy yarn buoyed by cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle's hypnotic imagery (the locations include Geneva, Hong Kong, and Oahu) and a generous ensemble cast, including a small, but charming role for Nicolas Cage as an avuncular CIA veteran sidelined for questioning agency culture.

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I quite look forward to this.


Mon Sep 19, 2016 7:00 am
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Snowden tells a fascinating story. Unfortunately it tells it as a soporifc hagiography. Plus ça change... *B*



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Tue Sep 20, 2016 5:01 pm
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Way too long, but I liked this for the most part and would say it's definitely better than the last couple of Oliver Stone films. It was surprisingly engaging considering I knew nothing about the subject matter before and Joseph Gordon-Levitt gives a much better performance here than I thought he did in The Walk. I wish it was a bit more memorable like Jobs, but atleast it's not another Savages which was just disappointing.


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Its too busy and undecided to be an autobiography or a political thriller and ends up not giving justice to both. There is also lack of tension in most scenes because of the approach here. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is brilliant in here, wish he was in more stuffs. The whole reveal is not handled very well but the movie made me go look for the full details of Snowden in the end.

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