[corkoman]

Indeed, Clint Eastwood – with whom Jolie worked in “Changeling” – is pretty much the obvious career model, and “Unbroken” is almost exactly like one of the proficient and pointless middlebrow dramas Eastwood has been making since he quit acting.

Yeah. Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of my Fathers, Gran Torino, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, yeah just a few pointless middlebrow director jobs indeed.

Looking for a single word for this reviewer who was clearly weened on lemons: #$@%^, OK there - I said it!

[discostu]

None of the ones you listed are since he quit acting. His post acting career (Gran Torino was when he announced his retirement, but he got tempted out again for Trouble With The Curve) is pretty bland: Invictus, J Edgar, Jersey Boys. American Sniper is getting decent reviews though.