“His name is Macho,” exclaims teenaged Rafo, road-trip co-passenger to Mike Milo, in his latest picture Cry Macho. Things happen far too conveniently on Mike’s ‘mission.’ He keeps losing cars, and he keeps getting another straight away, one way or the other. Even the central message of the film, its raison d’etre, is pretty much revealed in the trailer through …
The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Cry Macho,” a creaky, semi-sweet, unavoidably sentimental adaptation of a 1975 novel by N. Richard Nash, can thus be seen as Eastwood’s latest reckoning with certain wrongheaded assumptions about masculinity, and with a particular tough-guy ethos that he has both defined and subverted over his six-decade career. …