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169 By Rex Reed 11/08/11 7:00pm

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DiCaprio as Hoover.

J. Edgar, the Man, Was as Pissy as J. Edgar, the Film, Is Passionless and Plot-Starved

In spite of a fusillade of P.R. overkill about what a brave, risk-taking actor he is, and how he spent five hours a day in a makeup chair squirming, Leonardo DiCaprio’s portrait of a balding, sweaty, gristle-chewing, half-mad J. Edgar Hoover is gimmicky play acting. J. Edgar, Clint Eastwood’s exhausting chronicle of power obsession about the enigmatic, self-serving egomaniac who, as director of the F.B.I., kept America trembling with terror for half a century under the phony guise of patriotism, is a long, tedious and hollow disappointment. Read More

By Lee Siegel 8/18/10 1:11am

The Last Critic

I Scorn iPorn! My Secret Garden: Organic Soil

When I was a boy, "dirty" was the epithet of choice for the hated other. It wasn't enough to call someone any of the slurs for being Jewish or black or Latino. You had to put "dirty" before it.

The genealogy of the insult was firmly established in the history of the world. Your tribe-your Read More

By Rex Reed 4/27/10 7:59pm

Dirty Harry

Michael Caine is such a consummate actor that it’s a major cause of concern to see him in Harry Brown, another hateful vigilante flick the wags in England have already labeled Dirty Harry Brown for reasons that are immediately obvious.

Following in the worn avenger footprints of early gut-riddled Clint Eastwood crime melodramas, Charles Bronson in Read More

By Christopher Rosen 12/11/09 1:58pm

Opening This Weekend: Matt Damon Gets in a Scrum for Morgan Freeman, Peter Jackson Rattles The Lovely Bones and Tom Ford Goes Mad Men

A pair of Oscar-winning directors debut new films this weekend, but all anyone really wants to talk about is the King of the World. Thanks to some embargo-breaking reviews, the first (and second and third) word on James Cameron's Avatar has finally reached the masses. And, apparently, it's better than it looks! (Be honest, Read More

By Rex Reed 12/08/09 10:23pm

I’m Cheering for Morgan Freeman

InvictusRunning time 134 minutes Written by Anthony Peckham Directed by Clint EastwoodStarring  Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon

If I went to Clint Eastwood’s rousing, rah-rah Invictus with less enthusiasm than some of my colleagues, it’s because I am weary of all these worthy filmmakers churning out movies about South Africa nobody wants to see, and I dreaded Read More

By Andrew Sarris 12/09/08 8:20pm

Clint Makes My Day as Aged Avenging Angel

Gran Torino Running time 116 minutes Written by Nick Schenk Directed by Clint Eastwood Starring Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang, Ahney Her

Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino, from a screenplay by Nick Schenk, based on a story by Dave Johannson and Mr. Schenk, caps his career as both a director and an actor with Read More

By Christopher Rosen 11/28/08 2:08pm

Clint Eastwood, Once More With Feeling!

Normally, the Best Original Song category at the Academy Awards is the bane of our existence: an overloaded mess of badness that extends an already unending night into ass numbing proportions. No matter how the producers try to gussy up the presentation--"let's have Beyonce sing all the songs!"--the performances invariably stink. Of course the exception Read More

By Christopher Rosen 10/24/08 2:55pm

Opening this Weekend: Saw V, Pride and Glory, Changeling

As the temperatures slowly lower themselves towards sweater levels, it's time for Hollywood to start the fall season at the box office in earnest. With two highly anticipated genre films hitting screens, this is sure to be the most lucrative weekend since August. Here's a handy guide to the weekend's new releases:

Saw V

What's Read More

By Andrew Sarris 10/21/08 7:10pm

Angelina’s a Bit Too Boopish in Clint’s Corruption Chronicle

Changeling Running time 140 minutes Written by J. Michael Stracynski Directed by Clint Eastwood Starring Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Amy Ryan, Jeffrey Donovan

Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, from a screenplay by J. Michael Straczynski, takes place in a prodigiously painstaking re-creation of period Los Angeles from 1928 to 1935. To see a trolley car clanging Read More

By Rex Reed 10/21/08 4:49pm

In Like Clint

Changeling Running Time 140 minutes Written by J. Michael Straczynski Directed by Clint Eastwood Starring Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Jason Butler Harner, Amy Ryan

From chicken shit to chicken salad, don’t miss Changeling, Clint Eastwood’s absolutely true and overwhelmingly gripping saga of how crime and police corruption in 1920s Read More