Clint Eastwood keeps it real as a retired Detroit autoworker in this antidote to the season's glossy prestige pictures.
By Stephanie Zacharek Dec 12, 2008
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What has Clint Eastwood done with the real Angelina Jolie? That's the true mystery of this kidnapping movie.
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 24, 2008
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From Clint's "Changeling" to Soderbergh's "Che" and beyond, the New York Film Festival sets the table for the fall's Oscar hopefuls, art-house maybes and wild-eyed cinematic rebels.
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 25, 2008
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Takashi Miike's "Sukiyaki Western Django" offers a spectacular mashup of Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Tarantino and the Bard -- and it's weirder than that sounds.
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 28, 2008
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A British paper lures Eastwood and Lee into an unfortunate feud. Here's the real question: Which of their films should the other one have made?
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 11, 2008
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Laurent Cantet's joyful, tragic "The Class" is the first French Palme d'Or winner in 21 years; Benicio del Toro named best actor for "Che."
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 26, 2008
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Eastwood and his pregnant star bring their moody 1920s L.A. thriller to Cannes. But what's it called?
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 20, 2008
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Indiana Jones meets art cinema as the world's leading festival offers its most exciting lineup in years.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 14, 2008
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Eastwood's "Changeling" and Soderbergh's four-hour "Che" top an impressive Eurocentric lineup at 61st Cannes festival.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 23, 2008
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Clint Eastwood shows us the Battle of Iwo Jima from the viewpoint of the Japanese soldiers who fought and died there.
By Stephanie Zacharek
December 20, 2006
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Clint Eastwood exposes some brutal truths about war and how we treat our soldiers in this blunt yet effective movie.
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 20, 2006
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Jack says no to make-up in "King Kong"
By H.H.
December 13, 2005
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Left-wing critics attacked Clint Eastwood's early work as violently fascistic. Now conservatives blast him as a p.c. apologist and moral relativist. They're both wrong.
By Christopher Orr
February 24, 2005
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Clint Eastwood's boxing movie floats like a lead balloon and stings like a dead bee.
By Charles Taylor
December 15, 2004
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Clint Eastwood brings Dennis Lehane's Boston revenge saga to the screen as a mournful, masculine noir that's also the strongest film of his long career.
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 8, 2003
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Clint Eastwood gets a new heart, but never cracks a smile, in his latest competent, hard-boiled detective yarn.
By Charles Taylor
August 9, 2002
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How did a racist speechwriter for George Wallace turn into a "Cherokee" sage and author of a revered multicultural text? The weird tale of Asa ("Forrest") Carter.
By Allen Barra
December 20, 2001
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Extras include 14 minutes left out of Sergio Leone's vision of the mythic American West but, unfortunately, not the movie's original Italian.
By Max Garrone
February 15, 2001
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A vast left-wing conspiracy seems hellbent on promulgating the idea that the new Leader of the Free World resembles a chimpanzee.
By Douglas Cruickshank
January 19, 2001
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Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2000
By Joyce Millman
September 27, 2000
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Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones and a bunch of their withering old buddies are dying to go into space.
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 4, 2000
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Salon's TV picks for Thursday, Aug. 3, 2000
By Joyce Millman
August 3, 2000
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Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2000
By Joyce Millman
August 1, 2000
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A DMV nightmare: The other, evil David Goodman was on the loose.
By David Goodman
May 5, 2000
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Our fearless correspondent's first dispatch from the entertainment industry's demilitarized zone: hot tub adventures, Jay Leno's handshake and bad behavior with Trey Parker's digital camera.
By David Goodman
October 8, 1999