Gran Torino is a nuanced picture with incredible heart, humor, and melodramatic themes of acceptance and long-overdue redemption.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 5, 2023

Its characters find peace through acts of openness, understanding and sacrifice, and it is these arcs that allow the audience to feel a sense of cathartic peace ourselves.

| Sep 5, 2021

The originality of the film is minute, while the story offers few surprises.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 28, 2020

The film is clunky in places... but it is also warm, funny and moving, and genuinely thought-provoking about no end of hot-button contemporary issues, from race and class, to ageing and masculinity.

| Nov 20, 2020

A rewarding, entertaining film.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 9, 2020

As a film, Gran Torino is powerful, moving and entertaining; as a tribute to a living legend, it's deeply, indelibly affecting.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 4, 2019

It takes the showdown trope so prevalent in his treasured Westerns and turns it on its head.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 2, 2019

An elegy for a country looking for atonement after losing its way in macho xenophobia.

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

It is rumored this could be the 78-year-old's final film performance. If that is the case, Eastwood goes out on top - creating one of his most memorable characters in his rather impressive acting resume.

| Original Score: A- | May 22, 2019

[The] twist... elevates Gran Torino far above the typical vengeance-wreaking flick.

| Oct 10, 2018

It is a flawed movie, vastly overwritten, with characters pointing things out that we've long worked out for ourselves. Still, the self-referentiality of Eastwood's performance ensures that Gran Torino isn't just absorbing, but also moving.

| Aug 29, 2018

..."Gran Torino" contains within its strangely tight wanderings the utter, dexterous precision of drama-comedy and tragedy-given not to intellect and consideration, but to profound conviction and feeling.

| Nov 16, 2017

Seeing Eastwood ward off young gangsters was odd... well, but he pulled it off enough.

| Original Score: B | Sep 12, 2017

Aside from the somewhat dubious pleasure of Eastwood's tuneful noodlings, Gran Torino is not a very good film.

| Aug 22, 2017

[Its] problems cannot be ignored.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2014

This is another Eastwood's deconstruction of his career, and it doesn't give anything else in the movie any room to breathe.

| Original Score: C | Jun 22, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Covers a lot of ground as it rolls: religion, the toll of war, mortality, what it means to be a man.

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

Twenty minutes in, we know Walt is eventually going to give the car to the kid. The only question is how.

| Aug 16, 2011