Another Top of Clint Eastwood

Manohla Dargis writes in the New York Times: Dirty Harry is back, in a way, in Gran Torino, not as a character but as a ghostly presence. He hovers in the film, in its themes and high-caliber imagery, and of course most obviously in Mr. Eastwoods face. It is a monumental face now, so puckered and pleated that it no longer looks merely weathered, as it has for decades, but seems closer to petrified wood. Words like flinty and steely come to mind, adjectives that Mr. Eastwood expressively embodies with his usual lack of fuss and a number of growls. More praise for Eastwood comes from Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal, who comment....

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