'Richard Jewell': Film Review | AFI 2019

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  • Author: The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
  • November 21,2019

'Richard Jewell': Film Review | AFI 2019Clint Eastwood is quite partial to accidental real-life heroes these days and he’s found a good, if unprepossessing one, in Richard Jewell, a lively and none-too-flattering look at the “media lynching” of a sad sack security guard the press decided was responsible for a deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. The director’s last five films — American Sniper, Sully, The 15:17 to Paris, The Mule and now this one — have focused on ordinary men doing extraordinary things, only to have them scrutinized, for better or worse, in the aftermath.

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