'Richard Jewell' review: Clint Eastwood's seething reminder that sometimes, the fake-news rap is legit
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Dec 09, 2019
3 minutes
"Richard Jewell" is a sincere and extremely well-acted irritant from 89-year-old director Clint Eastwood. It's destined to get under the hides of different moviegoers in radically different ways. You may loathe parts of it, and still come out shaken and teary-eyed. You can choose to read it apolitically, if you squint hard enough. But we'll get to that.
Bolstered by its cast - the culminating scenes get all the finesse they require from Paul Walter Hauser, Kathy Bates and Sam Rockwell - it tells the story of how a hungry, sloppy media and a
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