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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 08 Nov 2011

This is not quite the be-all, end-all biopic of J. Edgar Hoover that prospective viewers were expecting, or at least hoped for…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 08 Nov 2011

J. Edgar is infuriatingly coy and noncritical about its subject, an undeniable patriot but also an alarmist and a ruiner of lives…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 08 Nov 2011

A non-controversial movie about a controversial figure…

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By Geoff Berkshire (602) for Metromix.com (1,085) on 08 Nov 2011

May not be the sort of disingenuously heroic tale Hoover would've spun about himself, but it's too scattershot to feel entirely true -- or…

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By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Nov 2011

Black's script, in the wrong hands, could have come under fire for confusing Hoover's twisted mind with his homosexuality or his problems with…

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By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Nov 2011

Although hardly flawless, Eastwood's biopic is his richest, most ambitious movie since the Letters From Iwo Jima – Flags of Our Fathers duo,…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 08 Nov 2011

screenwriter Black's idea of using the unreliable narrator for Hoover's history before long time companion Tolson outs him in the film's…

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By Drew Mcweeny (622) for HitFix (861) on 08 Nov 2011

By the end of the film, it's become a tragic love story about two men who like to wear heavy latex appliances and never touch each other…

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By Kevin Lally (258) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 08 Nov 2011

Leonardo DiCaprio's committed performance is the main reason to see this wordy, speculative account of the life of imperious, obsessive FBI…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 08 Nov 2011

At least Leonardo DiCaprio, grounded and sure, has commitment to spare. His portrayal of Hoover is undeniably terrific…

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By Tony Macklin (521) for tonymacklin.net (414) on 08 Nov 2011

Power doesn't necessarily make intriguing character. Is Clint next considering a movie about Henry Kissinger or Karl Rove…

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By Caryn James (352) for James on screenS (89) on 08 Nov 2011

It's not Leo's fault, but this shallow, conventional biopic is a snooze…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Richard Roeper.com (322) on 08 Nov 2011

J.Edgar is one of the best films of 2011…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 08 Nov 2011

There is skill and craft to every scene and DiCaprio's performance is solid, but J. Edgar never feels like some of Eastwood's most focused work…

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By David Denby (676) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 07 Nov 2011

No stranger man - not even Nixon - has ever been at the center of an American epic…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 07 Nov 2011

Makes cases for and against Hoover, without really making us care either way...an interesting failure, a movie that tries to do too much and…

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By Joanna Langfield (398) for The Movie Minute (398) on 07 Nov 2011

This is an awfully polite movie about a man who was anything but…

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By Todd Gilchrist (762) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Nov 2011

Undermined by old-age makeup, a story largely unbothered by chronology, and no throughlines or uniting themes other than what the characters…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for Associated Press (1,685) on 07 Nov 2011

The resonating images of Hoover are of a man increasingly and tragically out of step with time. Thankfully, it's been quite the opposite for Eastwood…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 06 Nov 2011

It's too bad J. Edgar is so shapeless and turgid and ham-handed, so rich in bad lines and worse readings. Not DiCaprio, though…

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