Predicted Critical Consensus: "Joseph Gordon-Levitt gives it his all, but standing in the shadow of several superior documentaries on the subject, Snowden is another disappointingly under-cooked thriller from Oliver Stone." The most damning evidence working against Snowden is that director Stone hasn't had a critically fresh movie since 2006's World Trade Center, and even that only scooped a fairly generous 68%. 1995's Nixon was his last film to earn genuinely strong reviews (75%), and with Stone's penchant for political heavy-handedness, don't be surprised if that alone sinks the movie. Then there are countless other issues: Gordon-Levitt looks absolutely nothing like Edward Snowden, some have already argued the biopic is coming far too soon without allowing the real-life events to settle in the public consciousness, and of course, Laura Poitras' documentary Citizenfour already did a pretty great job covering a lot of this. On the other hand, Gordon-Levitt will still get points for trying, and the film will almost certainly stir up a little righteous anger in viewers, so it won't be a total bust, probably just thoroughly mediocre.