A pleasing, intelligent film happy to describe Hoover's behaviour as monstrous but too balanced and searching to damn him as a monster.
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This review of J. Edgar (2011) was written by Dave Calhoun and published by Time Out on 17 Jan 2012.
J. Edgar has generally received mixed reviews.
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