Junior is flat and dry on screen - he just tried too hard. I guess the problem is that you can clearly sense that Washington wants to have as indelible an on-screen presence as his legendary father, but he can’t (and never will). The last shot of a character’s stunned, ravaged expression an emptied out look of despair is truly chilling in a way that no hand suddenly shooting up from the ground or it-was-all-a-bad-dream. In his latest film, “Amsterdam,” his chemistry with Margot Robbie is cold. In films like “Monsters And Men”, “Malcolm & Marie”, “Beckett” and “Tenet”, Washington can’t seem to grasp the subtlety and voice control needed for a great performance. One of the more baffling casting choices of these last few years was Christopher Nolan giving him the lead role in “Tenet,” what’s even more puzzling is that the more talented Robert Pattinson played sideman to this guy. Washington’s work in Spike Lee’s “Blackkklansman” was more than sufficient, but Washington had a great screenplay to work with and, although the lead character, he wasn’t even close to being the standout in that film.įact of the matter is that Washington is not yet ready to be a lead actor. I’ve been saying this for around three years now. substantial, insightful, and right.I agree with CineVue’s John Bleasdale who tweeted “John David Washington is not a great actor”. In this in-depth biography, the distinguished film critic Richard Schickel talks with Eastwood's family, friends, and colleagues-and, above all, with his notoriously reticent subject-to produce a portrait more astute and revealing than any we have ever had.įollowing Eastwood from his unstable childhood through his turbulent love affairs, assessing films from A Fistful of Dollars to the Oscar-winning The Unforgiven, and locating the subversive streak of rage and solitude that runs through all his work, Clint Eastwood is candid and endlessly fascinating, an unerring closeup of one of our brightest stars. It may be bound for Netflix, but Matt Palmers terrific, intensely terrifying Scottish twist on Deliverance has big-screen swagger. But that icon is also an actor of surprising subtlety, a filmmaker of vast intelligence and originality-and an intensely private man who eludes the stereotypes with which his fans and critics try to label him. Eastwood's career."įrom the moment The Man With No Name first fixed the screen with his murderous squint, from the first time audiences heard Dirty Harry Callahan growl "Make my day," Clint Eastwood has been an icon of American manhood in all its coolness and ferocity.
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