The action of the film depicts solely events that, for Eastwood, exemplify these traits. In the guise of its biographical arc, it's a didactic and philosophical film, a modernist bildungsroman that traces the building of character, as if mapping the landscape of lives and times from Olympian heights. His style, never ornate, is here shockingly simple—its plainness goes beyond mere clarity to a sense of secular revelation.
Richard Brody
February 12, 2018