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Yet another linked review. This week I reviewed the newly released Oliver Stone director’s cut of Nixon (cleverly titled the “Election Year Edition”). The director’s cut adds an extra twenty five minutes, to an already bloated film. Nonetheless, the director’s cut is a fairly decent edition to the film. It’s a film that I found incredibly interesting (besides reservations about Stone in general).

What’s most interesting here is that so much has been made of Obama’s connections to JFK, FDR and Roosevelt that it initially seems odd that Stone chose to release this as the election year edition instead of his conspiracy saturated JFK. But Nixon has never felt better timed than it does right now. Looking back at the man who shaped the last quarter century, and made the Bush presidency possible, is an interesting adventure.

Go read the rest of the review at Film-Forward.com.