
Roger Ebert
Salvador is a movie about real events as seen through the eyes of characters who have set themselves adrift from reality. That's what makes it so interesting.
Full reviewIn an Academy Award-nominated performance, James Woods plays a second-rate journalist from the US who tries his luck in El Salvador during the 1980s military dictatorship in this historical thriller from Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone (Platoon).
Salvador is a movie about real events as seen through the eyes of characters who have set themselves adrift from reality. That's what makes it so interesting.
Full reviewStone takes gritty subject matter and hacks it into a perilous ride based on Boyle's life in Salvador. Showing the true, upsetting and harsh realities of which most of us try not to think of. Pure Oliver Stone.
Full reviewCaustic, vivid, and without question the best major film about recent conflicts in Latin America.
Full reviewThe polemic may seem obvious and at times laboured, but the action sequences are brilliant, and the film does achieve a brutal, often very moving, power.
Full reviewIt serves as testimony to the ghosts that continue to haunt such men as ex-senator Bob Kerrey.
Full reviewWoods delivers one of his all-time great performances and Stone demonstrates the sheer ambition, both thematic and filmic, that would become a career theme.
Full reviewSalvador is available to stream in New Zealand now on Apple TV.
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