Where it falters - and badly - is in its portrayal of real-life reporter Kathy Scruggs. It leaves a bitter taste and mars the whole package, undermining its own good work elsewhere.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2020

The story Eastwood is telling here is indeed a compelling one, a real-life drama recounting the abuse of power by the two most powerful institutions in America, the government and the press.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 20, 2020

Eastwood's "shut up and point the camera" style of storytelling is bluntly effective and the film is powered along by three terrific performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2020

This is, frankly, a political film and it's no secret that Eastwood is not exactly on the left, but, ever the pragmatist, he leaves room for multiple readings.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 12, 2020

What should be an expose with nuanced performances has a very un-nuanced performance that overshadows the film...

| Feb 12, 2020

It's not Eastwood's finest hour.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2020

There is an elegant, even-handed character study buried within Clint Eastwood's crisp procedural about a security guard who becomes a hero - and then a pariah - after reporting a suspicious package at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2020

In many ways, it is a very good story, efficiently told - and that's down to the excellent and very plausible performance from Paul Walter Hauser.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2020

Not without fault, but still thoroughly compelling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2020

Richard Jewell is pointed and compelling - so much so that it needn't underline its themes as thickly as it does.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2020

In Clint Eastwood's hands, Richard Jewell becomes a martyr to the director's career-long cause: heroism when it exists in direct opposition to authority.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2020

Nothing is accidental in a Clint Eastwood film - such is the shame of Richard Jewell.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 29, 2020

Jewell is an exasperated innocent, and Hauser plays him as one part Sancho Panza, one part Baby Huey. He is very funny, at times disarmingly sweet, and extremely moving in his slow-awakening self-respect.

| Jan 29, 2020

Has there been a time since the Man With No Name first rode into town when Eastwood wasn't at the top of his game? Don't believe me? Check out Richard Jewell.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 29, 2020

A timely story of broken trust in institutions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2020

Solid, dependable, very late period Eastwood.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2020

Richard Jewell was an American hero, but the film named after him is more concerned with making reporter Kathy Scruggs an ambition-chasing villain in a too-tight skirt.

| Dec 27, 2019

Richard Jewell is an accomplishment in reminding us that the man was, after all, a hero. The film is a failure in making any larger point.

| Dec 23, 2019

But the artist...who keeps this film from collapsing into pandering mediocrity after it devolves into anti-media and anti-FBI caricatures-is Paul Walter Hauser as Jewell.

| Dec 20, 2019

Just when I thought one of the worst movie years in memory was down for the count, Clint Eastwood arrived at the last minute with Richard Jewell, to show us all how great movies are made.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 18, 2019