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Clint Eastwood's Changeling Struggling for Early Buzz
FirstShowing.net —
... The negative reviews from the NYFF have been coming in from a few sources, namely Karina Longworth at Spout. She jokingly says of the film: "We drink every time Angelina hysterically proclaims, 'He's not my son!' We get very drunk, and this may be why we can't figure out why Clint Eastwood made a cheap-looking Lifetime movie that eventually turns into an 'And justice for all!' episode of SVU." And apparently Ed Douglas of ...
A Few More NYFF 'Changeling' Reviews
RopeofSilicon.com —
... movies tend to play like parodies of good Clint Eastwood movies, and his latest, a loose dramatization of the Wineville Chicken Murders and the accompanying media blitz and police scandal that rocked Los Angeles in the late 1920s, is almost a bigger muddle than Flags of Our Fathers [...] Changeling is an example of a great director biting off more than he cares to chew, functioning mostly as its own Oscar campaign. These three are in addition to Karina Longworth's review at Spout : We drink every time Angelina hysterically proclaims, "He's not my son!" We get very ...
Jolie Met with Applause at NYFF
Awards Daily —
... in this and others disagree. O’Neil thinks that this time, with subject matter and Clint, Angelina has her best shot yet. What do you think? ...
NYFF, Negative ‘Changeling’ Buzz
Fataculture —
... (check out the Clint NYFF Q&A clips Rod has there too). Yet the most negative review of all comes from Spout-blogger Karina Longworth , who at first wondered out loud whether or not she should even bother articulating why she hates ‘Changeling’ as much as she does. Now, Karina isn’t exactly the most humble of critics, she’s definitely got that indie film-snob thing going on, nothing wrong with it, but it certainly detracts from me taking her latest review all that seriously. Until I see the film anyhow. She says, in a very wittily and sharply written way, “We drink every time ...
Vulture’s Critics’ Poll: The Complete Ballots
Vulture —
... fool you: This is the worst gay sequel ever.
Dennis Lim, New York Times
It's tough to pick worst movies — especially now that I tend to just avoid movies I don't have to write about and suspect I won't like — but I guess I'll nominate Revolutionary Road, certainly the most irritating and fraudulent film I saw last year.
Karina Longworth, spout.com
I'm going to go with Changeling. You can excerpt from my "review" if you like.
Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street ...
