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- As of September 2022, Salvador holds a rating of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 29 reviews with an average score of 7.7/10 and the consensus: "Despite its somewhat disjointed narrative, Oliver Stone's Salvador is a vivid and powerful political drama that sets an early tone for the director's similarly provocative future projects."
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“Salvador” stars James Woods, that master of nervous paranoia, as a foreign correspondent who has hit bottom. He’s drinking, drugging and unemployed, living off past glories. When all hell breaks loose in Central America, he figures it’s a good story since he still has some contacts down there.
A good movie --and Salvador is a good movie-- is a work of art, not journalism. It tells the emotional truth, as its creators see that truth. If you're watching a movie, presumably you're interested in the process of interpretation which happens between subject, artist, and viewer.
Salvador is a 1986 American war drama film co-written and directed by Oliver Stone. It stars James Woods as Richard Boyle, alongside Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy and Elpidia Carrillo, with John Savage and Cynthia Gibb in supporting roles. Stone co-wrote the screenplay with Boyle.
All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Armond White National Review. It is Stone’s cynicism that recommends Salvador for contemporary viewing. No other American filmmaker this...
Despite its somewhat disjointed narrative, Oliver Stone's Salvador is a vivid and powerful political drama that sets an early tone for the director's similarly provocative future projects. Read...
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Like Midnight Express, for which Stone received an Academy Award for his screenplay adaptation, Salvador is better movie than document. But if Stone's style is entirely too florid for history, it is grimly arresting by Hollywood standards.
Salvador Review. A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship, including the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero.
