Weekend Film Reviews
J. Edgar
In principle, biography should do what J. Edgar tries to do -- reveal an inner life, whether or not the subject is outwardly appealing...
By Joe Morgenstern • • 3m ListenJ. Edgar Hoover was the peerlessly powerful and widely feared director of the FBI over the course of almost five decades, and saw himself in a constant state of war -- against radicals, gangsters, communists and any politicians, including presidents, who tried to get in his way...