An expertly made human drama featuring a stirring combination of Eastwood’s signature low-key tone and some surprising shocks.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2024

We don't only feel outrage at Christine's treatment, but outrage at the treatment of women in general in 1920s America.

| Nov 15, 2020

Is Hollywood even allowed to have an awards season without Clint Eastwood around?

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

The shallowness and falseness of Changeling's perspective-its skewed presentation of certain social ills-imparts to the film an unsavory, misanthropic quality.

| Sep 2, 2020

Eastwood may be aiming for a more restrained and dignified sort of period drama with Changeling, but here he's all surface, preferring the familiar scheme of evil and good, crime and punishment, over delving deeply into character or meaning.

| Jan 27, 2020

Changeling simmers with emotion, tension and that sense of wide-eyed incredulity that comes with such an unbelievable true story.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 31, 2019

A finely crafted and at times mesmerizing film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Yes, Changeling is a well-made film, but "slick," not "substantial," is the word to describe it all.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 12, 2018

Changeling is such a dead weight of poor, blandly prestigious Hollywood genre cinema

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 9, 2018

Ultimately all of Eastwood's genre-blending comes up with nothing more than a hollow highbrow message movie that lacks all the blood and verve of its lowbrow inspirations.

| Oct 18, 2018

It feels empty, monotonous, bloated... This is old-fashioned story-telling that often feels unsophisticated and familiar.

| Aug 23, 2018

The incredible struggle of a woman to recover her son, at a time when women's voices simply were not heard... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2018

Angelina's performance was powerful and at times agonizing.

| Original Score: A+ | Sep 12, 2017

In a movie "based on" a true story, if the drama doesn't have a ring of authenticity, it can seem even more suspect than fiction, especially if the source material is distant and obscure: it makes you wonder what really happened.

| Apr 7, 2015

Eastwood's latest confirms its director as the dean of American melodramatists and as an accomplished yet unadventurous artist as uncomfortable with ambiguity as his admirers appear to be.

| Apr 7, 2015

Rich in authentic-looking period detail and punctuated with powerful acting, Eastwood's tale holds you in its firm, grim grip.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2011

What we're left with is a straightforward sob story; a haunting, matter-of-fact depiction of cruel injustice that couldn't fail to touch a nerve in any context.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2011

Jolie is alternately distraught and outraged (in good ways) but Eastwood's film is an odd mix of genres that never quite settles into the one we want to watch.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 17, 2011

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

It's a gripping tale, as infuriating as it is jaw-dropping at times, but it also becomes a frustratingly sprawling one here.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 4, 2009