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starstarstarstar Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune
starstarstar John Hartle - Seattle Times
starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Rob Blackwelder - Spliced
starstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide
starstarstar Tom Keogh - Film.com
starstar Peter Rainer - NY Magazine
starstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstar J. Hoberman - Village Voice
starstar Wesley Morris - SF Examiner

A old-fashioned movie done with wit, grace, smarts and style

Michael Wilmington

[Director Clint] Eastwood’s dilettantism in a story about a condemned black man ends up being insulting simply because it doesn’t care enough to be more than a Dateline two-parter

Wesley Morris

True Crime

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Risking his marriage and job, reporter Clint Eastwood investigates the case of a man sentenced to die for a murder he may not have committed. Isaiah Washington, James Woods, Denis Leary, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Penny Bae Bridges, Diane Venora, Bernard Hill. Director: Clint Eastwood (1999, R)

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