JOHN BOOT: “Clint Eastwood’s woeful, inept biopic J. Edgar may not be the worst movie he’s ever made (that’s debatable), but it’s so histrionic, one-sided and unserious that it will stand as the Mommie Dearest of G-man pictures.”

Meanwhile, Edward Jay Epstein emails: “Clint Eastwood’s new movie J. Edgar is a perfect example how liberal Hollywood employs pseudo-psychology to blacken the reputation of its political enemies. Eastwood calls it ‘humanizing’ J. Edgar Hoover. He accomplished this by making him a gay, repressed, fruitcake cross-dresser with an oedipal complex. James Jesus Angleton was treated no better in Robert Deniro’s movie The Good Shepherd.”