Total FilmSome will find it ponderous and pompous but J. Edgar is a handsome, ambitious period drama full of modern-day parallels.
Hollywood ReporterA surprising collaboration that tackles its trickiest challenges with plausibility and good sense, while serving up a simmer...
Entertainment WeeklyLeonardo DiCaprio has given many fine performances, but he has often seemed trapped in a certain preternatural matinee-idol ...
Chicago Sun-TimesJ. Edgar Hoover was the head of the Bureau of Investigation from 1924 until he died in 1972; he added the word "Federal" to ...
Chicago Sun-TimesJ. Edgar Hoover was the head of the Bureau of Investigation from 1924 until he died in 1972; he added the word "Federal" to ...
New York MagazineIt's too bad J. Edgar is so shapeless and turgid and ham-handed, so rich in bad lines and worse readings.
The New YorkerThe film moves fast, but Eastwood's touch is light and sure, his judgment sound, the moments of pathos held just long enough...
New York Daily NewsLeonardo DiCaprio, grounded and sure, has commitment to spare. His portrayal of Hoover is undeniably terrific.
The New York Times Mr. Eastwood doesn't just shift between Hoover's past and present, his intimate life and popular persona, he also puts them ...
USA TodayThe film ages DiCaprio convincingly, Hammer less so. Still, Hammer almost steals the show. While DiCaprio has some noteworth...
Los Angeles TimesJ. Edgar is a somber, enigmatic, darkly fascinating tale, and how could it be otherwise?
Chicago Sun-TimesAs a period biopic, J. Edgar is masterful. Few films span seven decades this comfortably.
New York PostDiCaprio may well receive a Best Actor Oscar for his tour de force as the conflicted FBI director -- greatly abetted by Hamm...
Rolling StoneDespite being buried in layers of prosthetic latex, DiCaprio is a roaring wonder as J. Edgar Hoover. Even when the film trip...
Entertainment WeeklyEastwood, forsaking his deliberate rhythms for something speedier and wordier, turns J. Edgar into a dramatic essay about ho...
Salon ArtsOne of the worst ideas anybody's ever had, a mendacious, muddled, sub-mediocre mess that turns some of the most explosive ep...
Chicago TribuneThis may be a closety film about a closety character, but the tensions between Eastwood's direction and the script he's dire...
SlateWhether unintentionally or by design, the movie never really makes a case either for or against the troubled figure at its c...
The Philadelphia InquirerJ. Edgar is an arduous trek through the history books, a gloomy glide down the marble halls of a Washington institution.
Wall Street JournalMr. Eastwood's ponderous direction, a clumsy script by Dustin Lance Black and ghastly slatherings of old-age makeup all cons...
E! OnlineThe look feels genuine, the performances (if you can get past the bad makeup) are solid, but the story plays things too stra...
Film School RejectsIn Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar, the director once again returns to his cinematic bread and butter with a large-scale historica...
ReelViewsWho knew the life story of J. Edgar Hoover could be so arid? Actually, that's unfair, but there are stretches of J. Edgar wh...
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Partial Film Information
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writer: Dustin Lance Black
Studio: Warner Bros Pictures
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Judi Dench
Release: November 9, 2011
Writer: Dustin Lance Black
Studio: Warner Bros Pictures
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Judi Dench
Release: November 9, 2011
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