Robert Duvall

Nothing's bigger than life. Life is great, right? Some aspects of life are bigger than others. Some personalities in life are bigger than others.

Strands good actors in mushy, movie-of-the-week material.

May be a naively simple variation on that other George—Orwell—but it remains a dazzling triumph of creativity and style over financial limitations.

Something happens halfway through the movie: star Will Ferrell cuts loose...Suddenly, we're in a cauldron of blood and coffee and Gatorade.

Remains the gold standard for the TV miniseries format...stands among the best Western films ever made.

The most significant achievement in the last forty years of American cinema.

An unofficial "sideways sequel" to Top Gun...except with national treasure Robert Duvall in the role of crusty mentor.

A heavy-handed potboiler, but as it raises the temperature, it does give cause to consider the line—so easily crossed—between social function and disasterous personal undoing.

A potent and distinctly philosophical morality play about human instinct, the moral cost of survival, and a father’s love for his child...

Bridges ably does his own guitar playing and singing, another reason Crazy Heart is a gift to those who have long appreciated his talents.

A welcome late-career showcase for Robert Duvall...fits snugly into the traditions of Southern literature, particularly the tensions between gentility and eccentricity, the community and the individual, and man and God.

Writer Paddy Chayevsky's prescient 1976 satire of lies, injustice and the American way...has lost none of its sting.

Succumbs to turgidity. And...intentionally or not...conveys the impression that the film uncritically celebrates the Confederacy.

[McQuarrie] spreads a unearned veneer of intelligence over...a plot one character aptly describes as 'grassy-knoll ludicrous.'

Runs on clichés and ultimately earns more credit for what it doesn’t do...than for what it does.