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Beautifully shot and well-acted, Changeling is a compelling story that unfortunately gives in to convention too often.
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There are moments when it seems as if it wants to be an inspirational story about a person who refuses to be beaten by a corrupt system -- but it doesn't, in the end, settle for the uplifting narrative. February 13, 2009 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
There are moments when it seems as if it wants to be an inspirational story about a person who refuses to be beaten by a corrupt system -- but it doesn't, in the end, settle for the uplifting narrative.
Philippa Hawker
Eastwood is a director made for melodrama and this one proves a lot juicier than Gran Torino, with its dry, dogged sense of righteousness. February 5, 2009 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Eastwood is a director made for melodrama and this one proves a lot juicier than Gran Torino, with its dry, dogged sense of righteousness.
Sandra Hall
It's a tough movie but also rewarding and inspiring: something of a quiet triumph. November 28, 2008 | Rating: 5/6 | Full Review…
It's a tough movie but also rewarding and inspiring: something of a quiet triumph.
Wally Hammond
Changeling, like Letters from Iwo Jima before it, is a mature, thoughtful and sometimes brutal movie that casts a cold eye on the past while sending shivers through the present. November 28, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Changeling, like Letters from Iwo Jima before it, is a mature, thoughtful and sometimes brutal movie that casts a cold eye on the past while sending shivers through the present.
Kevin Maher
What a bold, virile, operatic piece of film-making from this 78-year-old director. He is now well into a remarkable late period, and I sense we ain't seen nothing yet. November 28, 2008 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
What a bold, virile, operatic piece of film-making from this 78-year-old director. He is now well into a remarkable late period, and I sense we ain't seen nothing yet.
Peter Bradshaw
Sometimes the grimness and grandeur gel; sometimes they just add up to pompous soaps. November 28, 2008 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Sometimes the grimness and grandeur gel; sometimes they just add up to pompous soaps.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
Eastwood may be aiming for a more restrained and dignified sort of period drama with Changeling, but here he's all surface, preferring the familiar scheme of evil and good, crime and punishment, over delving deeply into character or meaning. January 27, 2020 | Full Review…
Eastwood may be aiming for a more restrained and dignified sort of period drama with Changeling, but here he's all surface, preferring the familiar scheme of evil and good, crime and punishment, over delving deeply into character or meaning.
Felicia Feaster
Changeling simmers with emotion, tension and that sense of wide-eyed incredulity that comes with such an unbelievable true story. October 31, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Changeling simmers with emotion, tension and that sense of wide-eyed incredulity that comes with such an unbelievable true story.
Nikki Baughan
A finely crafted and at times mesmerizing film. June 6, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A finely crafted and at times mesmerizing film.
Matthew Lucas
Yes, Changeling is a well-made film, but "slick," not "substantial," is the word to describe it all. December 12, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Yes, Changeling is a well-made film, but "slick," not "substantial," is the word to describe it all.
Kelly Jane Torrance
Changeling is such a dead weight of poor, blandly prestigious Hollywood genre cinema December 9, 2018 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Changeling is such a dead weight of poor, blandly prestigious Hollywood genre cinema
PJ Nabarro
Ultimately all of Eastwood's genre-blending comes up with nothing more than a hollow highbrow message movie that lacks all the blood and verve of its lowbrow inspirations. October 18, 2018 | Full Review…
Ultimately all of Eastwood's genre-blending comes up with nothing more than a hollow highbrow message movie that lacks all the blood and verve of its lowbrow inspirations.
Stephen Garrett
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