On October 23 and 24, during the Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival, director Oliver Stone’s latest biopic “W.” is slated to be screened in Leicester Square, an official release in the United Kingdom being scheduled for November 7.

“W.” features “No Country for Old Men” star Josh Brolin, who was cast in the biopic to portray United States president George W. Bush, Richard Dreyfuss, in the role of Dick Cheney, Ioan Gruffudd as Tony Blair, Jeffrey Wright as Colin Powell and Thandie Newton, a British actress who plays Condoleeza Rice.

On Friday, October 17, the movie opened in United States theaters and so far, it has received mixed reviews.

Nevertheless, both UK and US film critics have acknowledged Oliver Stone’s ability to depict president Bush as a round character, as a man claimed by opposing forces: his frustrations and complexes and his strife to overcome them, alike.

Moreover, Brolin came into high praise, as well, due to his rife with depth performance and his capacity to show the child overshadowed by his father and the man trying to be his own person between whom George W. Bush is torn and the president fighting a war on terror alongside the man fighting a war on his own fears.

Oliver Stone began filming “W.” in May because he was intent on releasing the movie before the 2008 United States presidential elections that are due to take place on November 4, in an attempt to offer Americans a cinematographic abridgement of Bush’s administration, along with an on-screen legacy of the latter’s years at the helm of the nation.