Why Mainstream Critics Are Panning Clint Eastwood's Latest Film, Richard Jewell
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American Thinker ^
| 12/23/2019 | T.R. Clancy
Not every mainstream movie critic hates Clint Eastwood's highly affecting Richard Jewell. But the critics who hate it hate it an awful lot. The
story of how an out-of-control FBI and a "completely irresponsible press" ruined the life of the heroic security guard whose quick action saved many lives during the 1996 Centennial Park bombing is legitimately viewed as Eastwood's take on what's happening in America right now. The irony that the movie was released the same week as the I.G. report exposing the FBI's lawlessness in Crossfire Hurricane must be particularly galling for mainstream journos who staked their reputations on...
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‘Richard Jewell’ Posts Worst Wide Opening for Clint Eastwood With Just $4.7 Million
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thewrap.com ^
| 12/15/19 | Jeremy Fuster
‘Richard Jewell’ Posts Worst Wide Opening for Clint Eastwood With Just $4.7 Million
“Richard Jewell” was a passion project for Clint Eastwood, but this weekend it became the Hollywood legend’s worst wide opening weekend in his directorial career with just $4.7 million. Released by Warner Bros. on 2,502 screens, “Richard Jewell” was projected by trackers to earn a $9-10 million opening this weekend — instead, it is opening to half that amount. To find a wide release that low in Eastwood’s career, you have to go all the way back to 1997, when “Midnight in the Garden of Good and...
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Clint Eastwood Movie, **Richard Jewell**, Reviewed by Larry Schweikart
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Facebook, Larry Schweikart ^
| Dec 13th, 2019 | Larry Schweikart
Years ago a professor of film studies told me that "Breaking Away" was one of the best "coming of age" films he'd ever seen because it didn't involve sex, but rather a boy being disillusioned with his cycling childhood heroes. "Richard
Jewell" is in many respects a coming of age movie. Most people know the story: Atlanta Olympic Games security guard Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser), who had been fired from a police department and from a college for excessive enthusiasm, finds a bomb in a backpack left at the Atlanta Centennial venue. He calls the police, assists in moving...
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SF Chronicle Review: ‘Richard Jewell’ is Clint Eastwood’s best movie in years
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San Francisco Chronicle ^
| Dec 11 2019 | Mick LaSalle
He just seemed the type. He
lived with his mother. He had lots of guns in the house. He dreamed of being a police officer. He wanted to be important. He knew everything about bombs. And so, for 88 days Richard Jewell — who was not only an innocent man, but a hero, who’d saved lives — had his own life torn apart, when he became the prime suspect in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. 1996. “Richard Jewell,” which tells his story, is a suspenseful, beautifully composed film from Clint Eastwood, his finest since “Hereafter” (2010) —...
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Clint Eastwood Breaks Silence On ‘Richard Jewell’ Accusations
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Daily Wire ^
| Dec 2019 | James Barrett
...And they’re also challenging the notion that the paper ran a story with questionable sourcing. Do
you have a response to the criticism?” I think the Atlanta Journal probably would be the one group that would be sort of complexed about that whole situation because they are the ones who printed the first thing of there being a crime caused by Richard Jewell,” said Eastwood. “And so they’re probably looking for ways to rationalize their activity. I don’t know for sure. I haven’t — never discussed it with anyone from there …”
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Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’: Atlanta Newspaper Demands Disclaimer on Depiction of Female Reporter
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Variety ^
| December 9, 2019 | Brent Lang
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is asking Warner Bros. and the makers of “Richard Jewell” to release a statement acknowledging it took dramatic license when it portrayed journalist Kathy Scruggs as trading sex for tips. The
Clint Eastwood film looks at the media circus that broke out around Jewell, a security guard who came under suspicion for orchestrating the Centennial Olympic Park bombing before being exonerated. Scruggs, an employee at the paper, broke the story that Jewell was under investigation by the FBI. The film shows Scruggs, portrayed by Olivia Wilde, sleeping with an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) to get the story....
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Daily Beast: Clint Eastwood’s New Film 'Richard Jewell' Is A ‘Poisonous Pro-Trump Effort’
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Hotair ^
| 12/04/2019 | John Sexton
I knew this review was coming, I just wasn’t sure where it would appear first. Today
the Daily Beast published a nakedly partisan review which barely spares a thought for its artistic merit or quality. What matters is that this film seems to make a point that could be seen as Trump friendly: Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell wants to be a gripping, outrage-inciting drama about an innocent victim persecuted by—and driven to fight back against—institutional power. Unfortunately, what it turns out to be is a MAGA screed calibrated to court favor with the red hat-wearing faithful by vilifying the...
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Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” is a Jewel of a Film...
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showbiz411.com ^
| 11/22/19 | by Roger Friedman
Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” is a Jewel of a Film, a Grand Flourish for the 90 Years Young Director A friend of mine called this morning who’d seen Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell last night in Hollywood. She knew I was seeing it this morning in New York. “It’s going to upset your
apple cart of an Oscar list,” she said. She was right. Eastwood, at 90, has made a jewel of a film in “Richard Jewell,” a real masterclass in filmmaking. Eastwood will have to be nominated for Best Director. The screenplay and music (by Arturo Sandoval) will have to...
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Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” is a Jewel of a Film...
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showbiz411.com ^
| 11/22/19 | by Roger Friedman
Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” is a Jewel of a Film, a Grand Flourish for the 90 Years Young Director A friend of mine called this morning who’d seen Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell last night in Hollywood. She knew I was seeing it this morning in New York. “It’s going to upset your
apple cart of an Oscar list,” she said. She was right. Eastwood, at 90, has made a jewel of a film in “Richard Jewell,” a real masterclass in filmmaking. Eastwood will have to be nominated for Best Director. The screenplay and music (by Arturo Sandoval) will have to...
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Clint Eastwood’s New Film, Richard Jewell, Takes Aim At The FBI And The News Media
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Hotair.com ^
| JOHN SEXTON
Clint Eastwood’s new film is titled “Richard Jewell” and tells the story of the security guard who was accused by the FBI and the media of responsibility for Centennial Olympic Park Bombing in 1996. The
first trailer for the film was released today and it contains this description of the story:
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Clint Eastwood Takes Aim at the FBI and the Media in ‘Richard Jewell’ Trailer (Video)
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The Wrap ^
| October 3, 2019 | Thom Geier
Clint Eastwood points a stern finger at FBI investigators and the media in the first trailer for his new fact-based drama “Richard Jewell,” which explores the security guard who reported finding an explosive device at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics — and then was falsely accused of planting it himself.
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Clint Eastwood Circling ‘Ballad Of Richard Jewell’ For Fox/Disney
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deadline.com ^
| 4/18/2019 | Mike Fleming Jr
EXCLUSIVE: Clint Eastwood is circling to next direct The Ballad Of Richard Jewell, and has been in discussions with Disney/Fox drama based on the life of a security guard whose life was turned upside down in a moment after it was leaked by law enforcement to a reporter that Jewell was a
possible suspect in the Olympic Park bombing during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. From the moment he was outed by an article written by an overzealous reporter at the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jewell went from hero to one of the most hated men in America. The script is by...
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Clint Eastwood Circling Leonardo DiCaprio’s Richard Jewell Project
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film stash ^
Clint Eastwood may follow up American Sniper with another dose of real-life drama. He’s
circling The Ballad of Richard Jewell, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill‘s movie about the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing. Billy Ray wrote the script based on a 1997 Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner
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