The bizarro-extraordinary story at the heart of Eastwood’s Jazz-Era tabloid saga is the kind of stuff you couldn’t make up (and no one would believe it if you did), and for that reason alone the film is imminently watchable. The Old Master’s careful, classical style is an effective counterpoint to the story’s more sensationalistic elements, but Angelina Jolie is fundamentally miscast as a single mother fighting against an intractably corrupt LAPD to find her missing son. Jolie’s performance is quite powerful, but she looks all wrong for the part, and as a result she comes across as iconic movie-star mannered, rather than gritty and lived in. (Starplex 16, Waco, TX)