The Mule

#13 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Clint Eastwood was done telling stories about real heroes for a bit, and he turned his attention to a role he could pick up himself. His first self-directed acting role since Gran Torino a decade before, this feels like Eastwood finding a story that tickled him and…

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The 15:17 to Paris

#35 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. The final installment in Clint Eastwood's unofficial "real heroes" trilogy, The 15:17 to Paris is easily the weakest of the three. Choosing to make an entire feature film out of an event that lasted roughly thirty seconds was a tall order to begin with, but he managed…

Sully

#21 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. The second entry in Clint Eastwood's informal "real heroes" trilogy, Sully tells the story of the Miracle on the Hudson, and it does it in an interesting way. Essentially swapping out its first and second acts, the tale of Captain Chelsey Sullenberger making impossible decisions to safely…

American Sniper

#8 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. This might be the most stylistically atypical film Clint Eastwood made in his entire filmography. It's a cross between a combat film and a character piece, and the combat part is filmed with surprising energy by Eastwood. I mean, he obviously didn't have the camera in his…

Jersey Boys

#31 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. I have a feeling that the appeal of this film to Clint Eastwood wasn't narrative but the evocation of the time of his youth, the music, the people, and the setting. Through movies like Gran Torino and Space Cowboys, it was obvious that Eastwood was looking at…