Eastwood the director sets a pace so poky that grannies with walkers seem fleet in comparison. Of course, this makes the many plot holes and implausibilities all the more evident...

| Jun 25, 2020

Clint Eastwood as producer-director-star strikes out in a rather slack thriller that oddly recalls a couple of Hitchcock's lesser movies, To Catch a Thief and Topaz.

| Jun 25, 2020

Absolute Power is... fresh out of the clichés that reduce most thrillers to formula.

| Jun 25, 2020

"Absolute Power" is not a "must-see." But if you're looking for a well-made, grown-up movie, it's worth your time and money.

| Jun 25, 2020

"Absolute Power" wanders. Yet, the movie is worth seeing simply because of Eastwood's presence, his (and Green's) camera, his excellent cast.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2020

Eastwood is at his effortless, slyboots best: he deftly cranks up the suspense at the beginning, but by the end he's cruising along so briskly that he can afford to throw away the climactic, violent scenes other directors would belabor.

| Mar 2, 2018

A reasonably engrossing and entertaining suspenser for most of its running time that is undercut by too many coincidences and some whoppingly far-fetched developments in the home stretch.

| Jul 6, 2010

Frequently fun, but glossy tosh.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

The plot is a doomsday version of Bill Clinton's Paula Jones problem, but the theme is impending mortality--settling scores before time's up.

| Aug 22, 2008

Doesn't rank with Eastwood's best work as actor/director, but it's nevertheless solidly enjoyable.

| Jun 24, 2006

Dunderheaded fantasy about noble thieves and corrupt commander-in-chiefs.

| Original Score: C | May 3, 2005

Mr. Hackman languishes in the smallish role of a White House buffoon, with Judy Davis equally cartoonish as his witchy chief of staff.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

A first-rate thriller about arrogance at the top, a showdown between two kinds of Americans: the evil, omnipotent bureaucrat and the enterprising, mind-his- own-business loner.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Ultimately, this is a thriller in vain search of credible thrills.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2002

Almost a drawing room thriller, unhurried and genteel but enlivened with suspense and surprising bursts of sly, even biting, humor.

| Feb 14, 2001

The picture might have gotten by if Eastwood had given it some impudent wit. But he directs to the rhythm of his facial muscles.

| Jan 1, 2000

Unintentional yuks litter an otherwise somber political thriller adapted from David Baldacci's novel.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Not many thrillers slow down to notice relationships, but this one does.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

There's something garish and degrading about a thriller that's this lip-smackingly eager to transmute sleaze into murder.

| Original Score: C | Feb 14, 1997