Cry Macho review: Clint Eastwood plays the last cowboy in blunt, elegiac Western

Cry Macho review: Clint Eastwood plays the last cowboy in blunt, elegiac Western

Entertainment Weekly-Movie·2021-09-23 04:00

CRY MACHO

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At 91, Clint Eastwood is more than an actor; he's an institution, a bulwark, a base mineral. That granite squint — and all its history — hangs heavily over Cry Macho, a movie of such complete elemental Clint-ness that it feels in some ways like a summation of his whole career, and a requiem for it too. The story itself is pure Western pulp, a dime-store roundelay of banditos, lost dreams, and femme fatales. But the poignancy of watching him play the cowboy once more feels like its own exercise in a kind of collective connective remembering: a bygone vision of masculinity whose template he didn't just embody on screen for decades, but half-invented our idea of in the first place.

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