Snowden US Release Date
The movie Snowden is already released on Blu-ray, DVD, VOD and Cinema in the USA.
Blu-ray
December 27, 2016Confirmed
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Cinema
September 16, 2016Confirmed
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DVD
December 27, 2016Confirmed
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VOD
December 27, 2016Confirmed
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CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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What do the critics say?
Based on 21 Snowden reviews, Snowden gets an average review score of 61.
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variety.comCinema
Oliver Stone's docudrama, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, is the director's most exciting — and relevant — movie in years.
2723d ago75/100
www.washingtonpost.comCinema
Regardless of how they feel about the main character, most viewers are likely to leave the theater reminded of Stone’s instinctive brilliance as a filmmaker — his grasp of visua...
2723d ago75/100
www.seattletimes.comCinema
Gordon-Levitt carries the movie, and without flash or overt dramatics, overshadows everyone else in it.
2723d ago3/4
www.philly.comCinema
'Snowden:' Oliver Stone, minus the histrionics, in his best political pic.
2723d agoB-/A+
thefilmstage.comCinema
Snowden’s actions might be heroic, but he’s no hero here. He’s the lightning rod for a continuing conversation.
2723d ago3/4
www.rogerebert.comCinema
If Edward Snowden didn’t exist, Oliver Stone might have invented him. One can imagine a Stone film about a former employee of the U.S. government who becomes disillusioned with ...
2723d agoC+/A+
theplaylist.netCinema
Also complicating matters is the fact Stone’s direction and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle visuals give the film a studio gloss that is simply too slick to make the real lif...
2723d agoC+/A+
www.avclub.comCinema
Snowden can’t match the nervous energy of its real-life subject.
2723d ago70/100
www.villagevoice.comCinema
Set aside your visions of histrionic, paranoid fireworks. Oliver Stone's whistleblower biopic Snowden finds the director in an unusually somber and controlled mood, perhaps beca...
2723d ago70/100
www.nytimes.comCinema
Mr. Stone has made an honorable and absorbing contribution to the imaginative record of our confusing times. He tells a story torn from slightly faded headlines, filling in some...
2723d agoC/A+
www.ew.comCinema
The NSA whistleblower’s story is one of the most compelling public scandals of the past decade — and its high-wire mix of government malfeasance and international intrigue sound...
2723d ago63/100
www.chicagotribune.comCinema
It's fairly absorbing though, increasingly, a bit of an eye-roller, and it's designed, photographed and edited to make you itchy with paranoia.
2723d ago60/100
www.thewrap.comCinema
Toronto 2016: Stone names the right (and left) names in this biopic of the whistle-blower, but his storytelling style lacks punch.
2723d ago55/100
www.theverge.comCinema
Oliver Stone's whistleblower movie plays it safe.
2723d ago2/4
www.rollingstone.comCinema
Controversial director takes on the NSA's Public Enemy No. 1, only to stick to the surface and buries the provocation.
2723d ago50/100
www.hollywoodreporter.comCinema
Joseph Gordon-Levitt heads an all-star cast in Oliver Stone's version of the life of controversial whistleblower Edward Snowden.
2723d ago50/100
www.usatoday.comCinema
Whatever you think of Edward Snowden as a person, his story is tailor-made for the likes of director Oliver Stone and his conspiracy-theory lens.
2723d ago2/4
www.slantmagazine.comCinema
It depicts Snowden's ethical dilemmas in a political vacuum that disregards America’s complex security threats.
2723d ago2/5
www.theguardian.comCinema
The director’s dramatic retelling of the NSA whistleblower’s rise to infamy boasts a strong central performance from Joseph Gordon-Levitt but its attempts to pander to a multipl...
2723d ago1.5/4
nypost.comCinema
Oliver Stone bombs again with his true-life spy tale ‘Snowden’.
2723d ago10/100
www.wsj.comCinema
Snowden is mostly flat, overlong, unfocused and didactic.
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