Changeling

A powerhouse of movie from Director Clint Eastwood and powerhouse of performance from Angelina Jolie. I think I just saw one of this years nominees. The attention to every detail in creating 1928 Los Angeles is breathtaking. Turning up the contrast and sepia tone helped to make Changeling look like a dusty old photograph. I could nit-pick . . . despite the attention to detail some modern language slipped in . . (Jolie, listening to the Academy Award broadcast, murmurer that one of the pictures nominated was “over-rated.”) Ms Jolie might have set a crying record. A little more nuance would have been nice. The movie was too long. A couple more paragraphs could have been added to the Epilogue text to shorten the film by twenty minutes. And I have to mention, since I am big fan, Amy Ryan has a nice turn. [ RT ]