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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for The Seattle Times (964) on 12 Dec 2019

Eastwood’s very good with actors, and the central trio of Richard Jewell make the film worth watching…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 12 Dec 2019

If we learn anything from the story in Richard Jewell, it’s that truth is truth, whether or not it fits your pet narrative…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 12 Dec 2019

If Eastwood had extended the sensitivity it shows to Jewell to others, it might have been worth something more…

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By Blake Goble (229) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 12 Dec 2019

As a political or journalistic statement, Richard Jewell does have the unfortunate tendency to come across like a rant…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 11 Dec 2019

As a filmmaker, Eastwood may not be famed for subtlety, but he does have a way with economy…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 11 Dec 2019

Hauser, who’s excellent, uses his bulk and heavy-lidded eyes to keep the character a cipher; Eastwood knows we’re judging Jewell as much…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 11 Dec 2019

The film makes a sobering point about the danger of rushing to judgment and trial by media, but undermines that with its ham-handed approach…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 11 Dec 2019

Like most of Eastwood’s work (with the exception of last year’s disastrous “The 15:17 to Paris”), it’s a tightly paced feature, with…

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By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 11 Dec 2019

It’s Hauser who keeps the movie from tilting over, even though Eastwood and Ray initially seem to patronize the character…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 10 Dec 2019

Cheers, too, for the tangy bite Sam Rockwell brings to Jewell’s Libertarian attorney Watson Bryant, a rebel whose methods rile the status…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 Dec 2019

Hauser is just as skilled and invested an actor as any of the more critically certified players alongside him here, including Sam Rockwell…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 10 Dec 2019

To Eastwood, Jewell is a hero not just because he saved people’s lives, but also because he was an ordinary and imperfect man who rose to…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 10 Dec 2019

Hauser, as Richard, is absolutely superb: nebbishy, so solicitous of authority that he barely bothers to defend himself and seeming, at times,…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for Time Out (7,510) on 10 Dec 2019

Richard Jewell’s greatest feat is the generous emphasis it places on its Forrest Gumpian do-gooder’s complex sense of humanity; if only…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 10 Dec 2019

Richard Jewell is one of those expertly crafted pictures that reminded me how little I care for craftsmanship when a filmmaker’s ugliest…

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By Inkoo Kang (374) for Slate (2,081) on 09 Dec 2019

More diverting is the increasingly desperate forensics the FBI resorts to in order to build a case against Jewell, though it’s not always…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Dec 2019

Ironically, Clint Eastwood is as condescending of Jewell as the bureaucrats he despises…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Dec 2019

Like so many of the works of Eastwood’s long late period, Jewell offers a story without much of an endpoint, with an uplifting coda that…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 04 Dec 2019

Richard Jewell is a sincere and extremely well-acted irritant from 89-year-old director Clint Eastwood…

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By Alex Saveliev (258) for Film Threat (5,156) on 21 Nov 2019

Eastwood once again takes a sharp stab at America’s penchant for attacking first, asking questions later…

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