Overview
Genre :
Drama, BiographyRelease Date :
November 11, 2011 (Wide)MPAA Rating :
RDirector :
Clint EastwoodStarring :
Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Ed Westwick, Damon Herriman, Judi Dench, Josh Lucas, Ken Howard, Lea Coco, Stephen Root, Jeffrey Donovan, Miles Fisher, Dermot Mulroney, Ryan McPartlin
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics 
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“..what a sprawling, befuddling, fascinating, frustrating mess of a movie..”
by Rick Groen [Globe and Mail]
“..there's too much liquid latex to fight through, and not enough insight and nuance in the script..”
by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer]
“..the movie's not about "two gay guys."..”
by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune]
Review rate : C+
“..the movie manages only an overview of Hoover's career, while his motivations, sexual orientation and manipulative paranoid personality are made no clearer..”
“..the movie manages only an overview of Hoover's career, while his motivations, sexual orientation and manipulative paranoid personality are made no clearer..”
by Tom Long [Detroit News]
Review rate : B+
“..offers a love story in which the hero struggles with his sexuality..”
“..offers a love story in which the hero struggles with his sexuality..”
by Joe Morgenstern [Wall Street Journal]
“..leaves us with no tears, but also a bizarrely melodramatic coda about the power of love..”
by Peter Howell [Toronto Star]
“..impatience with the script's tendency to tell rather than show..”
by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter]
“..far-from-perfect film is hobbled by uneven performances and a script studded with historical bullet points..”
by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune]
Review rate : B
“..dramatic essay about how the law and repression, heroism and corruption..”
“..dramatic essay about how the law and repression, heroism and corruption..”
by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly]
“..almost entirely psychological..”
by Peter Rainer [Christian Science Monitor]
Reviewed by J. R. Jones [Chicago Reader]
Reviewed by Peter Debruge [Variety]
