To think Gran Torino is a masterpiece, you have to accept the contrived setups and sledgehammer melodrama. You have to grade the movie on that same meathead-vigilante curve.

In Gran Torino Eastwood returns to the solid old filmmaking virtues of one of his mentors, Don Siegel, and wittily plays around with his well-worn tough guy image.

The key to everything is that beaut in the garage, a shiny ’72 Torino. Bookish teen Thao (Bee Vang), forced by a shady cousin and his gang, makes a weak attempt at stealing it.

When Eastwood’s follow-up to ‘Changeling’ was announced in May, he quickly refuted rumours that he was making, belatedly, another ‘Dirty Harry’ picture. If its ...

Word has it that "Gran Torino" is Clint Eastwood's last turn on the big screen; he plans to stay behind the camera from here on out. Assuming that's true, it's hard to imagine a better final note ...

Then there's the car of the title, Kowalski's mint 1972 Ford Gran Torino. That car spurs an unlikely friendship between Walt and Thao, his teenage neighbor.

‘Gran Torino’: Film Review So now we know what became of Dirty Harry. By Kirk Honeycutt December 4, 2008 7:00am 'Gran Torino' Photofest ...

Shawshank is a movie I will always stop and watch. Not matter what it is on. HBO, TNT, doesn't matter. I never get tired of watching that movie. Grand Torino is the now in that category for me.