Editing Salvador (film) (section)

===Critical response===
As of September 2022, ''Salvador'' holds a rating of 90% on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on 29 reviews with an [[weighted arithmetic mean|average score]] of 7.7/10 and the consensus: "Despite its somewhat disjointed narrative, Oliver Stone's ''Salvador'' is a vivid and powerful political drama that sets an early tone for the director's similarly provocative future projects."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/salvador|title=Salvador|publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=July 26, 2019}}</ref>

''Salvador'' was popular among critics. [[Roger Ebert]], a film critic for the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'', gave the movie three stars out of four, and wrote: "The movie has an undercurrent of seriousness, and it is not happy about the chaos that we are helping to subsidize. But basically it's a character study — a portrait of a couple of burned-out free-lancers trying to keep their heads above water."<ref>{{cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|title=Salvador|work=RogerEbert.com|date=April 25, 1986|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/salvador-1986|access-date=December 9, 2016}}</ref>

Walter Goodman of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote an unfavorable review, arguing that while "as an adventure film, [it] has plenty of speed, grit and grime", it depicts "improbable people doing implausible things" and in some cases deviates from reality "for the sake of heightening the drama and hammering in the political point". He also compared it to the work of [[Constantin Costa-Gavras]], cinematically as well as politically.<ref>{{cite web|last=Goodman|first=Walter|title=Screen: 'Salvador' By Stone|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=2&res=9A0DEFDB1F3AF936A35750C0A960948260|date=March 5, 1986|access-date=December 9, 2016}}</ref>

Alex von Tunzelmann in ''The Guardian'' criticized the film's cartoonish characters and the mix of facts and fiction; for example, given that Boyle did not try to enter the US with Maria, and that no real reporter existed like Cassady whose photos Boyle published.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/apr/08/salvador-oliver-stone | title=Salvador: Oliver Stone, lose the fast and loose approach | website=[[TheGuardian.com]] | date=9 April 2009 }}</ref>