J. Edgar
J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly 50 years, looks back on his professional and personal life.
28 September 1968, Shoreham, Kent, England, UK
10 May 1943, Waukegan, Illinois, USA
10 September 1960, USA
6 April 1976, Ireland
28 June 1965, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
20 August 1981, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
28 March 1944, El Centro, California, USA
4 February 1983, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
12 February 1954, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
31 March 1970, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
19 November 1983, San Diego, California, USA
27 August 1908, Stonewall, Texas, USA
22 April 1978, Santa Cruz, California, USA
May 03, 2015
It's a deeply silly movie. American history as kitsch, played out like a drag show.
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.
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.
July 03, 2016
J Edgar Hoover, at least as presented here, was not a particularly interesting or likeable individual. It gets boring quickly.
November 11, 2011
Usually the tautest of directors, Clint Eastwood has gone all slack here, allowing his subject to get completely away from him.
October 24, 2016
Anyone smell an Oscar?
November 11, 2011
Although Hoover's luster faded as his career went on, Eastwood's movie seems wan from the start.
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.
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.
November 11, 2011
Somehow J. Edgar manages to be both epic and empty.
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.
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.
