Ram Man: Clint Eastwood is back pulling double-duty again in his new film ‘Gran Torino’. Eastwood directs and stars in a film that is best described as “Dirty Harry retires to the suburbs”. I ...

More The program, titled “Reel Justice: Cinema for Change,” will feature a showing of “Gran Torino” starting at 5:15 p.m. No registration is required for the movie.

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 ...

It's a nice movie to watch once, but it's not exactly ground-breaking on any level at all. Clint Eastwood confirms that he can play a really good "stubborn, ornery old bad-ass". That's about it.

Even for a movie set in the Detroit suburbs, “Gran Torino” has too much of a drab, listless look. (It was shot by frequent Eastwood collaborator Tom Stern.) ...

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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 program, titled “Reel Justice: Cinema for Change,” will feature a showing of “Gran Torino” starting at 5:15 p.m. No registration is required for the movie.