J. Edgar
J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly 50 years, looks back on his professional and personal life.
15 December 1977, Detroit, Michigan, USA
10 July 1992, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
27 June 1987, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, UK
9 January 1913, Yorba Linda, California, USA
12 July 1970, Lemoore, California, USA
16 October 1985, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 May 1968, Santa Monica, California, USA
26 August 1978, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
9 June 1969, New York City, New York, USA
17 November 1951, Sarasota, Florida, USA
22 April 1978, Santa Cruz, California, USA
28 August 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
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.
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.
May 03, 2015
It's a deeply silly movie. American history as kitsch, played out like a drag show.
October 24, 2016
Anyone smell an Oscar?
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.
November 11, 2011
Somehow J. Edgar manages to be both epic and empty.
July 03, 2016
J Edgar Hoover, at least as presented here, was not a particularly interesting or likeable individual. It gets boring quickly.
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
Although Hoover's luster faded as his career went on, Eastwood's movie seems wan from the start.
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.
November 11, 2011
Usually the tautest of directors, Clint Eastwood has gone all slack here, allowing his subject to get completely away from him.
