'Snowden' Reduces Oliver Stone To A Middling & Toothless Hype Guy
with its standing-ovation climax framed as if a happy ending. This old-fashioned tone of cinematic pamphleteering taps into the binary morality that makes motion-pictures pat. Here, Snowden ... more symbolic of this than the fact that Nicolas Motherfucking Cage delivers a tasteful, toned-down supporting turn. The filmmaker’s fondness for fidgety edits and grand-sized flamboyance