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(1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh Page   1   "Instead of using subtlety and somber storytelling to relay its themes, 'Gran Torino' becomes simplistic to an almost insulting degree."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari "Clint Eastwood delivers a stunning performance as an angry old man who begins to question his negative opinion about his Hmong neighbors."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 2.5/4 "Gran Torino being a Clint showcase helmed by the Last Movie Star himself, Walt's reformation is nearly inevitable, but skirts being cloying on the strength of the 78-year-old icon's raspy brusqueness."   Slant Magazine   Bill Weber B "The role finds perfect concert with Eastwood's specific haggard range, assembling a character of gun-happy action, beer-soaked reflection, and Geritol-fueled defiance that could only be sold by the screen legend."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf B ""Old man Dirty Harry" is one way to describe Clint Eastwood's miserable racist character Walt Kowalski in what the actor and director says will be his last film role."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 3/4 "Clint Eastwood's steady directorial hand proves instrumental in smoothing over the few overtly ineffective elements within Nick Schenk's admittedly far-from-subtle screenplay."   AskMen.com   David Nusair B- "Modestly gripping topical urban drama."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "Clint Eastwood, directing himself, is the main attraction, and his Walter's redemptive journey through the course of the film is where its true, unforced power lies."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 3/5 "Un film menor en la carrera de Clint Eastwood, pero no por ello falto de interés o poco entretenido. Si efectivamente se trata de la despedida de Eastwood como actor, entonces se trata de una despedida digna y sentida."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B "Walt Kowalski has many of Eastwood's iconic qualities, and even if the movie isn't perfect, the character just might be."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "And you thought Walt was kidding when he told his son early on that people would show up after the funeral because he 'suppose they heard there's gonna be a lot of ham.'"   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 3.5/4 "Eastwood gives us a morbid take on righting wrongs in a world that lends no help to the victimized..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. "Less a great film than a fascinating personal testament"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce B+ "With Clint in the driver's seat, what might have been an old clunker comes very close to being a classic."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 5/5 "An extraordinary spiritual movie about an angry, lonely, bigoted old man whose his heart softened through his relationships with members of a Hmong immigrant family who live next door."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "Gran Torino is an amazingly over-the-top anti-racism parable but, despite its obvious shortcomings, it is nevertheless effective and affecting."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3.5/4 "Eastwood's dead-pan delivery is so familiar that it has its own built-in humor and draw, but it's all just set-up, which is precisely what makes the film such an intriguing trick"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 9/10 "Click here to read review"   vj.net.ua   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 2/4 "Gran Torino is a smorgasbord of Eastwood's skills as filmmaker -- the good, the bad, and the ugly -- and how you well you digest it will depend on your appetite."   Cinema Writer   Jay Antani 1.5/4 "Climax is an overindulgent grasp at something meaningful that misses by a country mile."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 6/10 "Tricky territory, but surprisingly the whole thing comes off as disarming."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 7/10 "Clint Eastwood has become one of Hollywood's best and most dependable filmmakers."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "If Mt. Rushmore were to make a movie, it would probably look a lot like a Clint Eastwood movie."   Film.com   Jonathan F. Richards 4/5 "If you've had the grandfather from a different generation who didn't worry about being politically correct, you should find some familiarity with which you can identify."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 2/4 "If Joel Schumacher had directed this, there might still be people enjoying it as the B-movie that it is, but no one would be calling it great."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B+ "Eastwood's volleys of racial slurs are so outrageous it's as if Dirty Harry embraced his inner Don Rickles..."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "Though Eastwood is not above self-deprecation and, here, downright silliness, Gran Torino is no orangutan movie."   Reverse Shot   Leo Goldsmith "The kind of movie Don Siegel and Sam Fuller used to make, a blunt but perceptive slice of American discontent filtered through the prism of B-movie conventions."   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh C+ "Like a new driver learning to operate a manual transmission, director Eastwood's awkward shifting of tones makes the lurching Gran Torino a frustrating ride."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "Oh my god, it's finally happened: Someone made Hey You Kids Get Off My Lawn: The Motion Picture."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1.5/4 "What could explain Eastwood himself, in a monotone croak, warble about his 'heart locked in a Gran Torino'?"   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 3.5/4 "Gran Torino gets laughs when it wants to be funny, earns your empathy when it wants to be affecting, and makes you think when it speaks its mind."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan "Its preoccupation with the burden and self-destructive ramifications of violence is given acute resonance by Eastwood's presence."   Cinematical   Nick Schager 2/5 "Eastwood parece se atrapalhar entre a vontade de contar uma história protagonizada por uma versão envelhecida de seu Dirty Harry e outra na qual aparentemente interpreta o pobre Sr. Wilson, vizinho e vítima de Dennis, o Pimentinha."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1/5 "It turns out that all of the idle initial speculation that surrounded "Gran Torino" was far more entertaining than the embarrassingly hackneyed and inadvertently hilarious melodrama that is the result of all that speculation."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 5/5 "Eastwood directs and acts with remarkable restraint, skilfully getting far beneath the surface"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 3/5 "The movie would be nowhere, absolutely nowhere, without Clint Eastwood."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves 3/4 "Though far from his best, we're still lucky to have it."   Suite101.com   Rob Humanick B "He goes out as a hero. He can be forgiven if he goes out a little bit over the top."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 1.5/5 "Do you miss Archie Bunker? Then Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino is the movie for you... Graceless and insensitive."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 9/10 "Who would have thought that Dirty Harry would become not only one of Hollywood's most respected filmmakers but also one of its most compassionate humanists? At 78, Eastwood still commands the screen."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 9/10 "It's undeniably hokey. But all pulp fiction is ultimately a little hokey, and that's usually why the makers of such movies compensate by bringing their A-game behind the camera."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh Page   1