Jolie delivers a memorable performance in Eastwood's engrossing true-life account of a missing child

Rating: 9/10 (13 November 2008)

CHANGELING (2008) *** Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Denis O'Hare, Jason Butler Harner, Devon Conti, Gattlin Griffith. Jolie gives one of her strongest performances to date in this true life account of a missing child case in LA circa 1928, that shed light onto the corruption of the police department in their cover-up in 'solving' the crime, forcing the child's mother to continue to pursue the fact the child 'found' was not hers. Directed with sure steady skill by Clint Eastwood, the film is engrossing and nearly unbearable in the gradual tension as new pieces to the puzzle begin to fit, and the particularly chilling darker final act will haunt you forever.