Bryan Appleyard

Lumpily scripted and poorly plotted: Cry Macho reviewed

If this is Clint Eastwood’s last film, it’s a pity it’s not better, though obviously you must see it

Clint Eastwood, who has made old age romantic and cool, as Mike Milo in his film Cry Macho. Credit: Claire Folger/Warner Bros 
issue 13 November 2021
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Clint Eastwood is 91; Cry Macho may well be his last film. Or maybe not. He has, after all, been directing himself as majestically craggy old guys for decades. Craggiest and most majestic of all, he was, in 1992, Will Munny in Unforgiven and, in 2008, Walt Kowalski in Gran Torino.

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