Synopsis
Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.
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Cast
- Clint EastwoodMike Milo
- Eduardo MinettRafo
- Natalia TravenMarta
- Dwight YoakamHoward Polk
- Fernanda UrrejolaLeta
- Horacio García RojasAurelio
- Marco RodríguezPorfirio
- Paul AlayoSergeant. Perez
- Brytnee RatledgeHippie Girl #1
- Amber Lynn AshleyHippie Girl
Recommendations
- 83
Consequence
One of Eastwood's most pleasing character studies since Million Dollar Baby. - 75
IndieWire
The latest of Eastwood’s many potential swan songs, this sketch of a movie is transparent enough to focus all of your attention on the shadow imagery behind it. On the brimmed silhouette that its director and star cuts in a door frame, on the six pounds of gravel that it sounds like he gargled before every take, and on the way that he plays Mike as a man who would give anything for a place to hang his hat if only he could bring himself to take it off his head. Better late than never. - 70
Arizona Republic
There is a craggy kind of elegance to Cry Macho. You know what you’re getting for the most part. This does not include a lot of surprises. It does include comfort in the familiar. Eastwood has earned that, too. - 65
TheWrap
A road movie that, considering who made it, starts pretty far down that road, Cry Macho is familiar and loose, sometimes rattly, occasionally wince-inducing, and in a few moments genuine in ways no one else seems to know how to do anymore. - 60
Variety
It’s friendly and diverting and formulaic, in an inoffensive and good-natured way, and it’s a totally minor affair. - 60
Screen Daily
From the film’s first moments, the audience can guess exactly how the story will pan out, and the pleasure is watching Eastwood gracefully negotiate every well-worn twist and turn. - 58
The A.V. Club
The fact is that, as a movie, Cry Macho is slow and sometimes dull. But as a statement by Hollywood’s oldest leading man and working director, it offers its share of gleaming low-key insights. - 42
Paste Magazine
Eastwood’s been riding off into the sunset for decades now, and Cry Macho’s creaky, lackadaisical hat-wave is a feature-length parody of a golden oldie.
