What our critics thought of J. Edgar
DiCaprio and Hammer are both tremendous.
Thumbs Up!
A great meeting of a director and a subject.
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The romance between Hoover and Tolson...creates major chemistry.
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Eastwood...is able to create the sense of a really shadowy world.
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J. Edgar
J. Edgar Hoover was the head of the Bureau of Investigation from 1924 until he died in 1972; he added the word "Federal" to its title in 1935. Under the administrations of Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, he was, many believed, the second most powerful man in government. Now he has been dead for 39 years, and what most people probably think they know about him is that he liked to dress up like a woman.
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Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun Times - 11/09/2011
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