Here are all 38 Clint Eastwood-directed movies ranked from worst to best, including the new RichardJewell
Photo: Warner Bros. This article was originally published in 2018 and has been updated to include the director’s latest work.
That phase reached a kind of culmination with the 1992 film Unforgiven, a Western of undeniable artistic achievement that would go on to win the Best Picture Oscar, and the years that followed found Eastwood redoubling his efforts to pursue whatever project appealed to him. Now 89, he’s been prolific and unpredictable ever since, usually turning out a film a year, sometimes two, that have ranged from police thrillers to melodramas to an old-fashioned musical.
37. Firefox Another attempt to keep up with commercial trends, Firefox arrived packaged as a state-of-the-art techno thriller in which Eastwood’s Major Mitchell Grant, a Vietnam vet reluctantly called back into service, is sent behind the Iron Curtain to steal a futuristic Soviet jet.
33. The Eiger Sanction Eastwood stars as Jonathan Hemlock, an art historian, mountain climber, and former assassin who’s called out of retirement against his will to take out a bad guy in the Swiss Alps. A mostly stupid movie that seems aware of its own absurdity, it does boast one highlight: the climbing sequences, which feature Eastwood doing his own stunts. Still, Eastwood was ill-suited to play an international man of mystery, and he seems to be aware of it.
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24. The Gauntlet The Eiger Sanction seemingly gave Eastwood a taste for over-the-top action, which he continues to indulge in a film where he plays a hard-living cop tasked with escorting a mob trial witness from Las Vegas to Phoenix. Along the way, he falls in love and starts to realize he’s part of a setup. Loud, fast-paced, and bullet-riddled, it now plays like the seed from which a lot of ’80s and ’90s action films grew.
20. Heartbreak Ridge In 1983 the United States invaded the Caribbean island nation of Grenada, a brief military action that had already been largely forgotten by the time this big-screen depiction hit screens a few years later.
16. Richard Jewell There’s so much to admire about Eastwood’s film about Richard Jewell, the story of the security guard who unfairly became a suspect after discovering a bomb at the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, that it’s a shame that one element threatens to overshadow its virtues.
13. Bird Honkytonk Man was overlooked in 1982, but that didn’t dissuade Eastwood from depicting the life of another tragic musician a few years later. Breaking with jazz orthodoxy in the mid-’40s, Charlie Parker pioneered bebop and helped clear the terrain jazz would explore for the next few decades. But he struggled with addiction throughout his career, and those addictions cut his life short.
9. A Perfect World After the success of Unforgiven Eastwood helmed another exploration of what justice means in America via the story of “Butch” Haynes , an escaped convict in early ’60s Texas who kidnaps Phillip, a sheltered 8-year-old boy , then finds himself forming an unexpected bond with his fatherless hostage.
6. Sully .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/cjpsppw47001j3h62ream45h5@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } How do you dramatize the story of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the airline pilot who, after losing both engines to a flock of birds, safely landed his plane in the Hudson River in 2009? It’s a remarkable story but also a fairly short one. Birds hit plane. Pilot lands plane. Everyone lives. We’re done.
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