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Read from 54 comments (48 from Metacritic, 6 from TMDB reviews) — 12 of them described how it moves.
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“Long stretches naturally involve Earl Stone (Eastwood) driving the highways of America.”
Wuchak · TMDB reviews ↗
“But things perk up in the second half and there’s some welcome human interest.”
Wuchak · TMDB reviews ↗
“it starts out somewhat promising”
anonymous133 · Metacritic ↗
“it gets boring and predictable somewhere in the middle”
anonymous133 · Metacritic ↗
“de gros problèmes de rythme viennent plomber le film qui s'étale beaucoup trop, eu égard au sujet”
Broyax · Metacritic ↗
“The entire film itself was very slow-paced, which at times made it hard to stay engaged.”
emilyashtenb · Metacritic ↗
Read 25 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
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“The Mule is a beautiful, troubling film. It is a pearl formed around a grit of unease in the oyster of our nostalgia.”
Mark Asch, Little White Lies · 90
“This movie is as much a eulogy for a country that Eastwood sees as slowly crumbling as it is for the life Earl chose to lead.”
David Sims, The Atlantic · 85
“This soulful and deeply satisfying film — a fitting swansong, if ever there was one — makes a compelling argument that change is always possible, and that the path we’re on is never as narrow as the highway makes it look.”
David Ehrlich, IndieWire · 83
“Less cranky and inciting than Gran Torino but persuasively expressive in conveying an old man's regrets along with his desire to improve himself even in late age, The Mule shows that Eastwood's still got it, both as a director and actor.”
Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter · 80
“Though the feeling sneaks up on you, The Mule has an unexpected emotional kick. That’s because in subject and execution it plays as personal as anything the filmmaker has done.”
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times · 80
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 25 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
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“it starts out somewhat promising”
anonymous133about 0–33% inread it ↗
“it gets boring and predictable somewhere in the middle”
anonymous133about 33–66% inread it ↗
“de gros problèmes de rythme viennent plomber le film qui s'étale beaucoup trop, eu égard au sujet”
Broyaxabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“The entire film itself was very slow-paced, which at times made it hard to stay engaged.”
emilyashtenbabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“Long stretches naturally involve Earl Stone (Eastwood) driving the highways of America.”
Wuchakabout 0–50% inread it ↗
“But things perk up in the second half and there’s some welcome human interest.”
Wuchakabout 50–100% inread it ↗
“I wonder if Clint Eastwood is one of the few directors who could have gotten this movie made. It took me a while to get around to watching it, partly due to some of the negative buzz I heard out there in the Interworld. I suspect I liked this movie for the same reason a lot of the bad buzzy folks hated it. How many respected directors have the star power to get a movie made that, even with a violent Mexican drug cartel involved in the plot, turns out to be a thoughtful, mostly gentle charact”
Peter McGinnread it ↗
“This be good. I enjoyed <em>'The Mule'</em>. It's an entertaining and well paced flick from 2018, as Clint Eastwood fully stars in a film for the first time since 2012's <em>'<a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/trouble-with-the-curve/" rel="nofollow">Trouble with the Curve</a>'</em> - and first also as director since 2008's <em>'<a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/gran-torino/" rel="nofollow">Gran Torino</a>'</em>. The 1930-born actor still has it! There's a good cast behind Eastwood, wi”
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