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Clint Eastwood

Richard Jewell movie review: innocent man, guilty movie

Thu, Dec 12, 2019
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Cluelessly simplistic rendering of a 1990s media injustice ignores all the context in which it happened and demonizes the one journalist who acted professionally. Fails even as a conservative screed.

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The Mule movie review: the old man and the drugs

Tue, Jan 29, 2019
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Welcome to Peak Apologetics for the Bullshit of White Men, replete with many appalling messages about their endless entitlement to redemption and forgiveness. And as a bonus, it’s racist and sexist.

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The 15:17 to Paris movie review: hell on wheels

Mon, Feb 12, 2018
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Clint Eastwood turns a terrorist attack into a bit of post-hoc reality “entertainment” with the stunt casting of the actual heroes as themselves in a stilted, tone-deaf piece of Christian-American propaganda.

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The Beguiled movie review: horror of manners

Fri, Jun 30, 2017
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If Jane Austen wrote a horror movie. An almost serene sinisterness infuses female-gazey carnal intrigue… but it could be even more feminist than it is.

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curated: Klimt Eastwood

Wed, Mar 15, 2017
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Love it.

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curated: gunslingers from classic westerns, gender-swapped

Mon, Mar 06, 2017
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Love.

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Sully movie review: he’s good people (and so is everyone else)

Fri, Dec 02, 2016
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The ultimate anti-disaster movie. A supremely gripping and powerfully emotional film about, paradoxically, what happens when everything works as it should.

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American Sniper movie review: a pawn in the game, misplayed

Wed, Jan 14, 2015
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A banal, bland tribute to things no one questions as laudable (though it has to misrepresent its subject to do so). But Bradley Cooper is very good.

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Jersey Boys movie review: it’s not only rock ’n’ roll…

Wed, Jun 18, 2014
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Director Clint Eastwood’s discomfort with his own material is enormous and obvious. Does he just not get pop music, or is he actively disdainful and suspicious of it?

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Unforgiven (Yurusarezaru mono) trailer: Clint Eastwood goes to Japan

Mon, Feb 24, 2014
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A Japanese-language remake of Unforgiven? Why not? Hollywood does the same in reverse all the time.

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