Paul Walter Hauser Gives His Own Movie 3.5 Stars on Letterboxd: ‘What’s Wrong With Giving an Honest Rating?’

variety.com:

Ethan Shanfeld Paul Walter Hauser is an active Letterboxd user — sometimes even critiquing his own movies. On Wednesday night, the actor took to X to respond to a post that reads, “Paul Walter Hauser giving Richard Jewell a 3.5 on Letterboxd, a movie in which he quite literally plays the title character, is one of the funnier things I’ve come across on that app.” Hauser replied: “If I think The Shawshank Redemption and Schindler’s List are 5/5, and Richard Jewell is not a perfect movie/bonafide classic, what’s wrong with giving an honest rating?

It’s a good film that is definitely worth watching. A 3.5 out of 5 is not a slight. It’s reality.” Hauser starred in the 2019 Clint Eastwood-directed crime thriller as Richard Jewell, the man who found a bomb during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and alerted authorities to evacuate — only to later be wrongly accused of planting the explosives himself.

In Variety‘s review, chief film critic Peter Debruge said Eastwood’s casting of a less-experienced actor in the lead worked “brilliantly” in “Richard Jewell,” writing that it allowed “Hauser to shine in a role movie star Jonah Hill once intended to play.” Hauser further discussed “Richard Jewell” on X, writing, “I love the movie and have so many fond memories on it. [Sam] Rockwell was like an uncle to me. [Jon] Hamm was like a big brother.

I met my WIFE while filming in ATL. Sebastian Stan let me stay at his pad for FREE. It was a twinkly sparkly time in my life.