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Mystic River

We bury our sins, we wash them clean.

2003 · 2h 18m · R Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Clint Eastwood

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Overview

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

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All reviews
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh

It is in many ways Eastwood's tightest movie for some time, and certainly his darkest since Unforgiven; indeed, the ending offers as corrosive an assessment of the limits of American justice as anything in his career.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

Sean Penn is so frighteningly good in this movie that he outdoes even the best of his earlier work.

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh

Works as a straight-up detective story, and the acting is often breathtaking.

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic
Rotten

Too depressing to fill audiences with delight, but it does seem to validate questionable attitudes, especially an indifference to the suffering of innocent people and a willingness to shoot first and ask questions later.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Solid, rarely showy performances, meticulously recreated detective work and moments of pure unadulterated grief accent this whodunit, a movie that will have those who haven't read the book fooled for much of its length.

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

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