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J. Edgar
It may be quite different when we list a series of events about J. Edgar Hoover, the powerful president of F.B.I. The events begin with the man who had been the head of that institution for nearly 50 years, starting to look at his career and personality unexpectedly.
19 May 1968, Santa Monica, California, USA
30 October 1972, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
29 October 1928, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 August 1965, New York City, New York, USA
3 December 1975, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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.
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.
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.
July 03, 2016
J Edgar Hoover, at least as presented here, was not a particularly interesting or likeable individual. It gets boring quickly.
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.
May 03, 2015
It's a deeply silly movie. American history as kitsch, played out like a drag show.
November 11, 2011
Somehow J. Edgar manages to be both epic and empty.
November 11, 2011
Although Hoover's luster faded as his career went on, Eastwood's movie seems wan from the start.
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.
October 24, 2016
Anyone smell an Oscar?