Synopsis
As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.
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Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprioJohn Edgar Hoover
- Naomi WattsHelen Gandy
- Armie HammerClyde Tolson
- Josh LucasCharles Lindbergh
- Josh HamiltonRobert Irwin
- Judi DenchAnna Marie Hoover
- Geoff PiersonMitchell Palmer
- Gunner WrightDwight Eisenhower
- Dermot MulroneyColonel Schwarzkopf
- Kaitlyn DeverPalmer's Daughter
Recommandations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
This surprising collaboration between director Clint Eastwood and "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black tackles its trickiest challenges with plausibility and good sense, while serving up a simmeringly caustic view of its controversial subject's behavior, public and private. - 80
The New York Times
Mr. Eastwood doesn't just shift between Hoover's past and present, his intimate life and popular persona, he also puts them into dialectic play, showing repeatedly how each informed the other. - 75
USA Today
J. Edgar shines a probing beam of light on a man who was widely feared, often disliked, but rarely understood. - 70
The New Yorker
No stranger man - not even Nixon - has ever been at the center of an American epic. - 60
Variety
Any movie in which the longtime FBI honcho features as the central character must supply some insight into what made him tick, or suffer from the reality that the Bureau's exploits were far more interesting than the bureaucrat who ran it -- a dilemma J. Edgar never rises above. - 60
New York Daily News
At least Leonardo DiCaprio, grounded and sure, has commitment to spare. His portrayal of Hoover is undeniably terrific. - 50
Observer
I expected more from a movie about the most feared man in America for half a century. Whatever else you think about him, in retrospect, he had balls of brass - an essential quality replaced in J. Edgar by dull indifference. - 40
New York Magazine (Vulture)
It's too bad J. Edgar is so shapeless and turgid and ham-handed, so rich in bad lines and worse readings. Not DiCaprio, though.
