Gran Torino
(Warner Bros. Pictures, $29.95)
Gran Torino should’ve been called “Dirty Harry: The Twilight Years,” said Entertainment Weekly. Clint Eastwood stars as a Korean War vet displeased by Hmong immigration to his Detroit block. But after seeing a neighborhood boy bullied, he takes a stand, “dishing out old-school payback.”
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