Was Dirty Harry a Misogynist? January 24, 2025
Dirty Harry is one of those names that evokes an immediate reaction. Even if you’ve never seen a Dirty Harry film (there are four), you likely know the eponymous main character, played by Clint Eastwood. You likely know the cold-hard-stare persona an...
The Storytelling of Clint Eastwood January 13, 2025
Clint Eastwood is an unstoppable force. An actor and a director who has been building his career since his first appearance on screen in 1955, Eastwood, now 94 years old, has directed and produced a new film. Juror #2 was released in November, and li...
The 25 Best Clint Eastwood Movies, Ranked November 06, 2024
At 94, Clint Eastwood is still working with the energy of a man half his age. His latest movie, Juror #2, is a tense legal thriller starring Nicholas Hoult as a jury member wrestling with an impossible moral dilemma. And while the screen legend doesn...
You Should See 'Juror No. 2' November 06, 2024
If there is a common denominator to the characters played over the years by Clint Eastwood, it’s that they can take care of themselves. To paraphrase his old enemy Pauline Kael, Clint’s is the rugged, creased, careworn face of self-reliance, squintin...
The System Has Failed Clint Eastwood November 04, 2024
Clint Eastwood always had one of the great faces of cinema, so it makes sense that somewhere along the way he became one of our great directors of faces. It feels ridiculous to talk of Eastwood’s “late style,” since the man has been on a late-style t...
Clint Eastwood’s Law September 16, 2024
In the course of his seven-decade career, Clint Eastwood has come to be identified with a single striking proposition. Appearing as a hard-bitten detective, a nondescript pilot, or an aging boxing coach, he advances the claim that upholding a system—...