Coogan's Bluff 1968

Critics score:
94 / 100

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Vincent Canby, New York Times: The screenplay is so predictable in situation and so arch in its supposedly tough, blunt, wise talk that it turns into a joke told by someone with no sense of humor. Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: Eastwood's performance as the flawed, headstrong superman has been terribly underrated, but he brings to the part of Coogan a sure knowledge of the man's obvious strengths and not so obvious failings. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Siegel knows what he wants and gets it. Read more

Time Out: Even Siegel's somehow off-centre treatment of New York hippiedom is intriguingly wry. Read more

Variety: Story is of the clash between sophisticated law enforcement and frontier-style simplistics, which is perhaps one of the major internal American problems. Read more