a mini masterpiece

Rating: 8/10 (31 March 2010)

i don't use superlatives a lot and try not to hype movies in general, but that said i think Clint Eastwood in his old age has become the Da Vinci of American cinema. He is not making one bad movie and every movie is a study, a meditation and a lamentation on old age, violence, what it means to be an American and the overall notion of what is right and wrong and where an individual fits in that cosmology. He is to movies what McCarthy is to American literature.
It started with unforgiven and continued with A Perfect World (a genius of a movie) and Million Dollar Baby and now this gem.
For the sake of American art, I hope Eastwood lives to be 120.