True Crime

Clint Eastwood has made a lot of good movies and a few great ones. True Crime doesn't fit in either of those categories. It is a very formulaic film badly marred by Eastwood miscasting himself in the lead. Clint, bless him,... Full review

I don't know why this film doesn't get much credit. I thought Eastwood's directing and acting were superb. He plays a writer on his last legs like no one I can imagine. He's a loser, a womanizer, a reformed drunk -... Full review

A good movie on every level. The Diane Krall song locks it into my memory. Eastwood's portrayal of the jaded journalist going through the motions is spot on. Not his absolute best work, but for me one of his most memorable... Full review

Here's one of those movies that's basically been done before but still manages to hold our interest -- and hold it fairly well. Squinty Clinty plays an over-the-hill newspaper reporter who sniffs a bigger scoop when assigned a human interest... Full review

TRUE CRIME is a sophisticated crime thriller that takes time to delve into its lead character--CLINT EASTWOOD--who promptly turns out to be very much like the Eastwood character we've already seen in a dozen or so films--boozy, insolent, direct, and... Full review

Most underated eastwood movie ever. Very very very Very very very Very very very Very very very Very very very Very very very Very very very Very very very Very very very Very very very Very very very Very very very... Full review

True Crime is not a very original film and it is cliched;however,it's also a solid,engrossing drama with a good performance by Clint.Here he plays a womanizing,alcoholic reporter with a tenedency to get a little too involved with his stories.He's given an... Full review

Based on a novel, this story is about how a newspaper reporter saved the life of a man on death row, who was about to be executed for a crime he did not commit. Clint Eastwood plays the reporter. He gives... Full review

True Crime is a fairly engaging movie that has some good performances. Eastwood as the director stages the action well and moves the plot forward. Only in the scenes where he takes his daughter to the zoo does the film... Full review

Some movies never let you forget you're watching a movie and that the actors or acting (poorly at that). Not so with this masterpiece by veteran Clint Eastwood, who Produced, Directed and stars in this gripping and well acted tale. My... Full review

True Crime is true entertainment. Based as it is on a novel, the film is rather more expansive and detailed than a typical suspense thriller, taking great care to build the story elements, with considerable emphasis on establishing Beachums character. ... Full Review

True Crime" is, like many other of Mr. Eastwood's films, about flaws. True Crime" doesn't provide any answers and, as its own flaw, it doesn't stirs up enough feelings to make us ask any questions. ... Full Review

Eastwood showed some true brilliance in how he framed and set up the shots in True Crime. Video : True Crime is presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, which looks spectacular. ... Full Review

When the traditional ending rolls around, True Crime is revealed as charmless, disjointed and unsatisfying. Decades on, his womanising, quip-happy character rings unrealistically hollow, shackled to a half-baked storyline that rarely threatens to make the best of his, or anybody elses, talents. ... Full Review

Despite its commonplace storyline and a few small qualms, "True Crime" is a respectable film, particularly in its unequivocal details involving the characters and genuinely unpredictable outcome (even though the very last scene didn't quite sit well with me). ... Full Review

Pop culture is finally hitting the eject button on the VHS tape, the once-ubiquitous home-video format that will finish this month as a creaky ghost of Christmas past. ... Full Article

Acting, says the 35-year old LisaGay Hamilton, "has always been in my psyche." The Los Angeles native actually spent most of her childhood in New York, where she became passionate about performing, but has no idea from where that passion... ... Full Article

Trained at New York University 's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts and the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York, Sydney Tamiia Poitier is emerging as one of Hollywood 's bright young talents. ... Full Article

Diana Krall admits her life is both "very cool and pretty wacky right now." The 34-year-old acclaimed jazz singer-pianist from Nanaimo, B.C., is currently treading water in the tidal wave of reaction to her surprising Grammy nod last week. ... Full Article

By KENNETH TURAN TIMES FILM CRITIC March 26, 1999 Friday March 19, 1999 There's only one Clint Eastwood (more's the pity) but two kinds of Clint Eastwood movies. ... Full Article

Clint is at it again. Imperfect reporter (i.e.: ex-drunk, current womanizer, unable to feel compassion) has nose for the truth. When the newswoman assigned to a "human interest" death row case dies before the convict -- Clint and his hunch ... Full Article