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What has enraptured so many critics, among them Richard Schickel in Clint Eastwood: A Biography , is that the actor-director has learned to play with his own inexpressiveness--to make a joke of his frigid machismo without (and here's where the supreme balancing act comes in) travestying it.
"Disaster movies are our millennial No plays, totally stylized, totally predictable, but comforting in their familiarity" (Richard Schickel, Time).
"[W]e don't believe a word of this," says Time 's Richard Schickel.
The cinematography is alternately praised as stunning and condemned as boring, but the response to the story line is unanimous: It's a "liberal soap opera" (Richard Schickel, Time ) that consists of a "self-congratulatory anti-prejudice message, fleshed out with painstaking topographic detail" (Dennis Lim, the Village Voice ). A few critics stand up for the film, calling it a "thoughtful, evocative thriller" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Find out more about Hawke here.)
It allows Schickel to write lines like, "A rude beast has been perceived slouching toward the Bethlehem of the New Masculinity, waiting to be reborn in more cuddlesome form."