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Changeling

2008

Clint Eastwood

Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore ...

7.2

66,639

Mystery. Drama Los Angeles, 1928: On a Saturday morning in a working-class suburb, Christine (Angelina Jolie) said goodbye to her son, Walter, and left for work. When she came home, she discovered he had vanished. A fruitless search ensues, and months later, a boy claiming to be the nine-year-old is returned. Dazed by the swirl of cops, reporters and her conflicted emotions, Christine allows him to stay overnight. But in her heart, she knows he is not Walter. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Emotionally powerful and stylistically sure-handed."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Despite Ms. Jolie’s hard work and Mr. Eastwood’s scrupulous attention, the difficult, fairly one-dimensional character fails to take hold"	NEG
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"In 'Changeling' Eastwood continues to probe uncomfortable subjects to depict the individual and even existential struggle to do what is right"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Jolie] plays the role like a gathering storm, moving from terror to a fierce resolve. And Eastwood (...) tightens the screws of suspense without ever forgetting where the heart of his film lies (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[Jolie, Malkovich and Geoff Pierson] are very good at what they do very well. The film's most riveting performance is by Jason Butler Harner(...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Mr. Straczynski and Mr. Eastwood have produced a distended, awkward narrative whose strongest themes are lost in the murky pomp of period detail"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It would be obtuse to deny how very watchable this story is and how powerfully and confidently Eastwood socks it over (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"'Changeling' fundamentally works; it holds you. But these issues of texture and detail matter too, and they hold clues as to why Eastwood's latest is a good, solid achievement rather than a great, grieving one"	NEU
United Kingdom	Damon Wise Empire	"This is another fabulous drama from a man whose films, in contrast to his peers’, just can’t stop getting better and better (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	John Anderson The Washington Post	"'Changeling' is graced by some nice period detail (...) [It] is a totally star-driven vehicle in which you find yourself missing something very essential. Something very Cleeent."	NEU
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"Eastwood's film works best as a thorough—and sadly timely—depiction of what happens when a government institution decides that adhering to an official narrative is more important than discovering the truth"	POS

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