It’s difficult to see the real brilliance of the Bay Area film scene through this self-congratulatory Fog.
In the film’s doting view, there’s no great subtext, no great mystery, to Rickles’s success or appeal.
My mistake. Four coffins for all previous video versions of these films.
Eastwood’s other western trilogy won’t be challenged, but this set gives an interesting view of a star at a crucial crossroads in his career.
The film trembles in the shadow of Letters from Iwo Jima but the quality of its image and sound elements is almost unrivaled.
If Martin Scorsese loses again this year he will become the director with the most nominations in this category without ever winning.
We’re now seeing a variety of films borne of the sentiments of our own time.
Clint Eastwood’s charcoal-colored aesthetic casts a pall of doom over his story’s ill-fated protagonists.
What rankles me the most is the received wisdom that somehow Flags of Our Fathers has too broad of a canvas for Eastwood and thus is outside his particular wheelhouse.
The stink of Crash hovers over Flags of Our Fathers.
Clint Eastwood’s creaky history-class lecture Flags of Our Fathers makes the nature of heroism its primary point of concern.
Mark Twain once said, “I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one instead.”
It’s a shame not to be able to hear such a strong critic week in and week out.
Not a lot of supplemental materials here, but not unlike the film, they don’t mess around.
Million Dollar Baby is another act of faith from Clint Eastwood.
For a much-hyped three-disc set, this Mystic River package is a little disappointing, but who cares when the film is this good?
Operatic is scarcely the word for Sergio Leone’s impassioned riffs on the western tradition.
Sergio Leone’s cinema, now fully embraced by cinephiles and fanboys alike, is practically a genre unto itself.
Mystic River is a somber evocation of a poor, close-knit section of Boston on the brink of moral collapse.
The film finds Clint Eastwood reaching a peak in the fields of both film direction and acting.