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Clint EastwoodFeatures
Clint Eastwood: American Icon CollectionAgain in the Eastwood oeuvre, a man who thinks he's in control, and especially around women, finds out he's not quite. [4 June 2009] Columns
Identities in FluxKaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is performance art as civilization-annihilating Godzilla, whereas Eastwood's Changeling is a film that wins the stranger than fiction category, hands-down. [24 October 2008] (more The Screener) Reviews
ChangelingThere’s a touch of Arthur Miller in the way the audiences emotions are played in this story of challenging authority. [19 February 2009] 
Gran TorinoAs Gran Torino breaks down the iconic Eastwood Movie, it recalls The Searchers, another timely evocation of collective wrongheadedness and terrible legacies. [12 December 2008]
ChangelingA movie made with awards season in mind, Changeling offers extravagant affects and overwritten speeches. [24 October 2008] 
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)Poetic and pained, Letters from Iwo Jima is a war movie about loss and, almost worse, the anticipation of loss. [21 December 2006] 
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)War, the film argues, depends on lies, on myths and beliefs that could never be sustained were the experience represented or remembered explicitly. [20 October 2006] 
Million Dollar Baby (2004)With the peculiarly titled Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood elicits yet another remarkable performance from a young actor. [17 December 2004] 
Mystic River (2003)While the film doesn't elucidate Jimmy's own violent past, it is clear that he hasn't had misgivings until now. [9 October 2003] 
True Crime (1999)Steve Everett is an old-school newspaper reporter, the kind who has improbable hunches that turn out to be right, who gives investigative reporters a good name, who's relegated to fiction these days. He's also more complicated than that, a self-styled macho boozer and womanizer, but recently slipped into another state, feeling confused and a little pathetic. [1 January 1995] Blogs
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