Clint Eastwood has just released his latest film, in which he is once again star and director. In “Cry Macho”, the 91-year-old Hollywood icon plays Mike Milo, described in the film’s synopsis as “a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder who, in 1979, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man’s young son home from Mexico.
Forced to take the backroads on their way to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman finds unexpected connections and his own sense of redemption.” While the film has earned tepid reviews and a middling score on Rotten Tomatoes, writer/director/former film critic Paul Schrader has weighed in with a scathing take of his own.
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