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Genre : Drama, Biography
Release Date : November 11, 2011
MPAA Rating : R
Duration : 137 minute(s)
Production Budget : -
Studio : Warner Bros. Pictures
Official Site : http://jedgarmovie.warnerbros.com/
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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 ]
the movie manages only an overview of Hoover's career, while his motivations, sexual orientation and manipulative paranoid personality are made no clearer
Review rate : C+
by Tom Long [Detroit News ]
offers a love story in which the hero struggles with his sexuality
Review rate : B+
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 ]
dramatic essay about how the law and repression, heroism and corruption
Review rate : B
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 ]