Mystic River

#4 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Give Clint Eastwood a great script for a drama, and he's going to make a great movie. He may not always be able to modify his filmmaking style appropriately to different genres, but he is very good at the slow burn drama. Written by Brian Helgeland (a…

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Blood Work

#37 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Every law enforcement film Clint Eastwood made that wasn't a Dirty Harry film feels like a reaction to Dirty Harry. Blood Work feels like, "What if Harry Callahan got really old and had heart problems?" I'm actually kind of surprised this isn't an outright entry in the…

Space Cowboys

#26 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. The first film Clint Eastwood made that wasn't based on a book in several years, Space Cowboys is a fun, geriatric adventure for most of its running time. Without taking itself too seriously through its first two acts, it is consistently entertaining until it suddenly shifts tones…

True Crime

#29 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Taking another contemporary literary source and adapting it to uneven results, Clint Eastwood's True Crime does some things quite well but fumbles in some of the more important aspects of the story it's trying to tell. This is the second time I've seen this, and I ended…

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

#40 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Clint Eastwood takes on yet another popular contemporary novel, and this is the least of the bunch. I have not read the source book written by John Berendt, but from what I've read the appeal of it was the lurid and somewhat fantastical reality that was this…