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J. Edgar
It is a large collection of powerful and different events that we live through J. Edgar Hoover, the powerful president of F.B.I. It may be different when that man, who has been president of that institution for almost 50 years, makes a new decision. It's a decision to pay attention to a more professional and personal life.
14 September 1976, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
27 June 1987, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, UK
10 May 1943, Waukegan, Illinois, USA
29 October 1928, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 March 1954, Pipestone, Minnesota, USA
6 April 1976, Ireland
10 September 1960, USA
26 August 1973, Eustis, Florida, USA
10 July 1992, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
30 December 1987, Sacramento, California, USA
April 13, 2016
A large, self-important, incident-by-incident biopic crammed with luxuriant period detail, laden with old-age make-up and powered by meticulous but riskless acting.
May 26, 2013
DiCaprio never measures up to the task of creating a plausible interpretation of what enabled Hoover to be both heroic and maniacal.
September 26, 2013
With noirish lighting and most of the running time spent inside offices or cramped domestic rooms, Eastwood keeps the film claustrophobic, sometimes unpleasantly intimate.
October 24, 2016
Anyone smell an Oscar?
May 03, 2015
It's a deeply silly movie. American history as kitsch, played out like a drag show.
November 11, 2011
Usually the tautest of directors, Clint Eastwood has gone all slack here, allowing his subject to get completely away from him.
July 03, 2016
J Edgar Hoover, at least as presented here, was not a particularly interesting or likeable individual. It gets boring quickly.
June 20, 2013
The Hoover material is ugly and very American, and it might have made an authentic monster story. But the picture offered is muddled, cautious, and at cross purposes.
November 11, 2011
Although Hoover's luster faded as his career went on, Eastwood's movie seems wan from the start.
November 11, 2011
Here's that J. Edgar Hoover biopic you asked for, or at least something that meets all the technical requirements to be considered one.
November 11, 2011
Somehow J. Edgar manages to be both epic and empty.
January 17, 2012
A pleasing, intelligent film happy to describe Hoover's behaviour as monstrous but too balanced and searching to damn him as a monster.
