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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★★ 1

  no country for broken boys.

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★★ 1

  A rocket ride through the world of men and all the laws, written or otherwise, that regulate it. Every bit with Costner and the kid is a marvel. The stuff inside the trailer can be more staid despite some wonderful back and forth between Eastwood and Dern, but the intercut between lawless and order is essential to what the movie is doing and it moves very strong from one to the other. Good to know this still makes me cry hard as it has been a few years. My pick for greatest movie made in Hollywood after the studio system collapsed.

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  Review by Rafael Jovine ★★★★ 11

  This is one of those films that has been on my radar for years because of this platform. The reaction has been varied, but I saw it online and decided to check it out after all.

  And, while I'm not sure I agree that this is Eastwood's finest picture, it is one of his most moving. The connection between Costner and TJ is fantastic, despite the fact that the kid's acting was at times comical. Surprisingly, the worst performance for me came at the height of tension, when we see Costner's more vicious side, when we are reminded that this man is a dangerous criminal. There are also some repulsive scenes of paedophilia that made me uncomfortable.

  Another thing I…

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  Review by Willow Maclay ★★★★½ 5

  "In Eastwood's filmography knowing how to use a gun and the consequences of that knowledge are addressed in the hands of fathers and their sons, whether they be surrogate or natural born. The most famous example of this is in Unforgiven (1992) where William Munny (Clint Eastwood) consoles “the Schofield Kid” (Jaimz Woolvett) after he kills a man for the first time. The Kid is struggling to grasp what he has just done. He's in disbelief, chugging whiskey and holding back tears before Munny utters a few words on killing that resonate beyond Unforgiven and are applicable to many of Eastwood's films. “It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got...and all he's ever…

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  Review by eddie ★★★★★

  hell no, phillip. good size for a boy your age

  most of the runtime consists of intercutting costner teaching a jehova's witness youth about outlaw moralism with clint the texas ranger fighting off the governer's criminologist (laura dern) and the fbi's sharpshooter (bradley whitford), who were assigned to assist his highway manhunt, which is... perfect. eastwood is a master of balancing the melodramatic and the procedural, which makes the clash of the two at the climax that much more painful. whitford looking down the scope, followed by a series of reaction shots that seem to punctuate the dramatic thread of each character. buzz asks butch "are you bad?", and this ironic question has as much weight as henry fonda's "by jing, that's all there is to it. right and wrong" in young mr. lincoln. myth-making in the gray area.

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  Review by theriverjordan ★★★★ 21

  “A Perfect World” is a movie made masterful by its flaws. 

  Clint Eastwood’s crime drama about an escaped convict (Kevin Costner) that takes a young boy hostage fluctuates with a jerking suddenness of tone between moments of comedy and trauma. 

  The unevenness is one of Eastwood’s recurring late career quirks, but in “World,” the imbalance functions to further the tinderbox tenacity of the setup. Working class dad Costner is constantly on the verge of deceiving even himself that he is the mastermind of an amiable family road trip, rather than of a violent crime. 

  The pairing of two notable Western genre actor-directors in “World” cannot have escaped audiences of the time; so soon after Costner’s sweeping the Oscars for “Dances…

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  Review by Joe ★★★★★

  After tearing down the western in Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood decided to do some mythmaking of his own, about an outlaw instead of a lawman. His mastery of relaxed pacing makes this a pleasure to watch, but not without darkness - the late sequence with Costner's Butch Haynes coming harrowingly close to gunning down a family In-Cold-Blood-style is a great illustration of how heroes sometimes (maybe inevitably) end up failing us.

  But my favorite part of the movie is T.J. Lowther as Butch's 8-year-old "hostage" Phillip. Movie history is full of precocious, hyperverbal youngsters who talk like grownups and are able to fully articulate all of their complex emotions in a way that adults aren't even able to in the real…

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  Review by Gabriel Gundacker 1

  Asked my friend Steve if I could borrow his HBO Max to watch a movie with my parents again. He said only if I watched this Clint Eastwood movie from 1993. So we did that, but now we have his log in and can watch whatever we please tomorrow! Fair trade.

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  Review by Glenn Heath Jr. ★★★★★

  Men trying to be fathers, boys trying to be sons. What a wonderful film.

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  Review by chavel ★★★½ 6

  It’s Texas 1962, and Robert “Butch” Haynes (Kevin Costner) has successfully pulled off a prison break along with a Neanderthal partner which leads them on the way out of town in taking a 9-year old (T.J. Lowther) hostage. I still do not know too much about Jehovah’s Witnesses believers, but I suppose the upbringing is very strict. The boy has been raised as one of them; on the road he forms an unlikely devotion for his kidnapper Butch because he is a man that refreshingly lives by his own liberated rules.

  Released in 1993, this Clint Eastwood film might have been sold at the time as a kidnap and caper yarn with some introspective elements to beef things up. Today,…

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  Review by Pedro Lovallo ★★★★½

  Um dos grandes filmes já feitos sobre pais e filhos e as diversas maneiras como esse tipo de relação se manifesta. Além disso, é um grande êxito porque entende que humanizar personagens vai além de forjar carisma ou encontrar formas de justificar seus erros, mas sim de retratá-los tanto em suas virtudes quanto em seus defeitos, fugindo de qualquer dicotomia fajuta de bem x mal: são personagens que erram, acertam e até erram para corrigir/evitar erros dos outros. E, ironicamente, os únicos coadjuvantes unidimensionais acabam sendo punidos de alguma forma.

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  Review by Michael501 📺 ★★★★½ 1

  Clint Eastwood A Retrospective - Week 39

  Butch (Kevin Costner), a escaped state prisoner from a Texas jail, kidnaps Philip (T.J. Lowther), a young, impressionable boy. As they embark on a trip across the American Southwest together, a surprising bond grows between the convict and his captive, even as law enforcement forces slowly catch up with them. An honorable Texas Ranger, Red Garnett (Clint Eastwood), understands Butch has a heart of gold, but must pursue him anyway out of duty to the law and a desire to protect the child.

  Hands down I think this is my favourite Eastwood movie, I liked it originally when it first came out, but since then it’s kinda been forgotten about a little bit,…