Clint Eastwood, at 79 (yes, you read that right), continues to create films that garner plaudits such as "gutsy and virile," "seething with power," and "frighteningly potent."
Having checked some of the reviews of Eastwood films from the past decade in the U.S. media, it seems critics hold his works on a par with say, a hulking motorcycle or a majestic tiger — something with fire in its belly or a lot of muscle and sinewy tendons (in fact, like Eastwood himself). It's impossible to imagine Eastwood making some softly lit, twilighty kind of love story crammed with life lessons. He'd probably shoot himself in the foot first.
"Changeling" is his latest, and whatever else you may want to say about it, there's no denying that the film seethes with power and has a potency equivalent of an intravenous vitamin shot. Based on a real-life incident that happened in 1920s Los Angeles, "Changeling" traces the story of a single mother on a desperate quest to find her missing child.