From a favorable review in Variety today of Oliver Stone’s W, his portrait of George W. Bush:

For a film that could have been either a scorching satire or an outright tragedy, “W.” is, if anything, overly conventional, especially stylistically….but one late sequence — of Georges Sr. and Jr. preparing to duke it out in a bare Oval Office — suggests the sort of stylistic imagination and audacious poetic flight that would have given the film some real heft.

When Stone made his movie about Richard Nixon, he was both praised and criticized for similar “restraint” — restraint that included a plot line in which Nixon recruits an assassination squad to kill Fidel Castro, after which the squad actually assassinates JFK.

Stone’s movie opens October 17. So does a film called Sex Drive, which is described thus: “High school senior Ianborrows his brother’s beloved ‘69 GTO and recruits his best friends on a road trip from Chicago to Knoxville in order to hook up with a babe he met online.” Guess which one will make more money.

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