Storyline
As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
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Jessica Hecht, Kaitlyn Dever, Josh Lucas, Jeffrey Donovan, Geoff Pierson, Denis O'Hare, Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Josh Hamilton, Dermot Mulroney, Judi Dench, Geoff Stults, Ed Westwick, Armie Hammer, Gunner Wright, Adam Driver, Lea Thompson, Sadie Calvano, Amanda Schull, Roberta Bassin, Emily Alyn Lind, Barbara Keegan, Gerald Downey, Thomas Langston
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80
This surprising collaboration between director Clint Eastwood and "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black tackles its trickiest challenges with plausibility and good sense, while serving up a simmeringly caustic view of its controversial subject's behavior, public and private.
80
Mr. Eastwood doesn't just shift between Hoover's past and present, his intimate life and popular persona, he also puts them into dialectic play, showing repeatedly how each informed the other.
75
J. Edgar shines a probing beam of light on a man who was widely feared, often disliked, but rarely understood.
70
No stranger man - not even Nixon - has ever been at the center of an American epic.
60
Variety
Any movie in which the longtime FBI honcho features as the central character must supply some insight into what made him tick, or suffer from the reality that the Bureau's exploits were far more interesting than the bureaucrat who ran it -- a dilemma J. Edgar never rises above.
