JFK

(1991; screens Sunday at 1 p.m.)

Oliver Stone compressed 28 years of criticism, surmise, and evidence about the Kennedy assassination into a kinetic palimpsest of data. Unfortunately he makes a hero out of Kevin Costner as New Orleans DA Jim Garrison, out to find the truth the Warren Commission missed; the truly subversive stuff is weakened by Stone's reliance on the most pallid, generic narrative devices. Still, with Joe Pesci, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Kevin Bacon, JFK is a significant event.