J. Edgar
J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly 50 years, looks back on his professional and personal life.
15 January 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
19 May 1968, Santa Monica, California, USA
26 August 1973, Eustis, Florida, USA
25 January 1930, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 July 1992, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
17 December 1960, Harvey, Illinois, USA
October 24, 2016
Anyone smell an Oscar?
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.
November 11, 2011
Somehow J. Edgar manages to be both epic and empty.
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.
November 11, 2011
Although Hoover's luster faded as his career went on, Eastwood's movie seems wan from the start.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
May 03, 2015
It's a deeply silly movie. American history as kitsch, played out like a drag show.
