Weekend Movie Forecast: Che, Gran Torino, Doubt

In Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino, Clint plays a former auto worker in Detroit who gets caught up in some nastiness with Hmong immigrants in his downwardly mobile neighborhood. Manohla Dargis at the Times is on board: "Twice in the last decade, just as the holiday movie season has begun to sag under the weight of its own bloat, full of noise and nonsense signifying nothing, Clint Eastwood has slipped another film into theaters and shown everyone how it’s done. This year’s model is Gran Torino, a sleek, muscle car of a movie Made in the U.S.A., in that industrial graveyard called Detroit. I’m not sure how he does it, but I don’t want him to stop. Not because every film is great — though, damn, many are — but because even the misfires show an urgent engagement with the tougher, messier, bigger questions of American life."