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Home » Clint Eastwood

Tag: Clint Eastwood

Posted inFilm

Clean

by Max Maller January 27, 2022January 27, 2022

This grim movie presents Adrien Brody’s character, a garbageman named Clean, as the wronged party in an unforgiving world.

Posted inFilm

Ben Sachs’s top 12 films of 2019

by Ben Sachs December 17, 2019August 18, 2021

Yes, there are some ties.

Posted inFilm

Movie Tuesday: Jazz on film

by Ben Sachs October 15, 2019August 18, 2021

Both highly collaborative art forms often play on improvisation and the music of chance.

Posted inFilm

Movie Tuesday: The male animal

by Ben Sachs September 10, 2019August 18, 2021

Five films that examine, interrogate, or critique traditional male behavior.

Posted inFilm

Vox Lux and The Mule present two very different responses to our nation’s ills

by Ben Sachs December 21, 2018August 18, 2021

While one finds only despair, the other argues that we’re still capable of kindness, despite the terrible things we do.

Posted inFilm

Clint Eastwood finds his inner Eric Rohmer with The 15:17 to Paris.

by Ben Sachs February 9, 2018August 18, 2021

Young men frolic like ponies, then thwart a terror attack, in the action director’s latest.

Posted inBlogs

The lawless Chicago portrayed in the new Death Wish trailer is the stuff of Trumpian fantasy

by Ryan Smith January 3, 2018August 18, 2021

The new trailer for the Death Wish remake portrays a Chicago that looks like Donald Trump’s dream come true.

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Thank You for Your Service should have played it by the book

by J.R. Jones November 2, 2017August 18, 2021

Miles Teller stars in this adaptation of David Finkel’s examination of the mental-health crisis among U.S. veterans.

Posted inBlogs

Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled is only a superficial success

by Ben Sachs July 5, 2017August 18, 2021

Coppola’s adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s novel is better directed than written.

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With Sully, Clint Eastwood recalls a story no one has forgotten yet

by J.R. Jones September 8, 2016August 18, 2021

Tom Hanks stars as Chesley Sullenberger, the airline pilot behind the Miracle on the Hudson.

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The Polish Film Festival comes to town, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

by J.R. Jones November 6, 2015August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

Jean-Luc Godard goes 3-D, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

by J.R. Jones January 16, 2015August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inFilm

Bradley Cooper is number one with a bullet in American Sniper

by J.R. Jones January 14, 2015August 18, 2021

With American Sniper, Clint Eastwood tells the story of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle.

Posted inBlogs

Jersey Boys isn’t Clint Eastwood’s first film about professional singers. . .

by Ben Sachs June 26, 2014August 18, 2021

Revisiting Eastwood’s 1982 period comedy Honkytonk Man

Posted inBlogs

Weekly Top Five: The best of Clint Eastwood

by Drew Hunt June 22, 2014August 18, 2021

The best of American maverick filmmaker Clint Eastwood

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