The Stranger, October 15th, 2003
The question, friends, is not whether Clint Eastwood is a great director. That debate should have been settled long ago, by anyone who paid attention to Unforgiven, A Perfect World, and The Bridges of Madison County. The question that persists is: How can a great director like Clint Eastwood turn in such shoddy, shallow garbage as Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Rookie, and last year's indefensible Blood Work as often as he does? The answer may be contained in Eastwood's latest work, Mystic River, a film that has been garnering rave reviews for its sober treatment of Eastwood's fa...
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