Release Date: October 24, 2008 (limited; wide: Oct. 31)
Here is a site with what it says is the official trailer but is more like a clip from the movie...http://www.changelingtrailer.com/
I have tried looking for reviews from the Cannes showing but couldn't find anything. Then today I came across this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changelin...tical_reception
The film's screening at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival was met by rave reviews, prompting speculation it could be awarded the Palme d'Or.[50] Damon Wise of Empire called the film "flawless",[51] and Todd McCarthy of Variety said Changeling was "Emotionally powerful and stylistically sure-handed". He called it a "thematic companion piece" to Mystic River, but said it was "more complex and far-reaching" than Eastwood's previous entry at the festival in 2003. McCarthy praised Angelina Jolie's "top-notch" performance in the lead role, saying her performance "hits home" more directly than in A Mighty Heart (2007) due to the absence of affectation. He also said the film offered "a wealth of sterling supporting turns", praising Michael Kelly's performance in particular. McCarthy expressed admiration for Straczynski's "outstanding" script, which he said had "deceptive simplicity and ambition to it", and he praised Eastwood's direction, which he said honored the script by "underplaying the melodrama and not signaling the story's eventual dimensions at the outset". He said "The characters and sociopolitical elements are introduced with almost breathtaking deliberation, as dramatic force and artistic substance steadily mount" and that "In the end, Changeling joins the likes of Chinatown and L.A. Confidential as a sorrowful critique of the city's political culture."[52]
Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter said Changeling put aside romantic ideas of a 1920s Los Angeles being a more innocent period, saying the film portrayed a city "awash in corruption and steeped in a culture that treats women as hysterical and unreliable beings when they challenge male wisdom". He said the story "adds a forgotten chapter to the L.A. noir of Chinatown and L.A. Confidential". Honeycutt noted that due to the film's close adherence to the true-life facts of the case, the drama sagged momentarily at one point, but that "Straczynski and Eastwood are good at cutting to the chase. Seldom does a 141-minute movie feel this short". Honeycutt praised Jolie's performance, saying she "completely shuns her movie star image" and "can appear vulnerable and steadfast in the same moment... She reminds us that there is nothing so fierce as a mother protecting her cub". But he said the supporting characters (with the exception of Amy Ryan's) "tend toward righteousness or badness without too many shades in between". Honeycutt had praise for Eastwood's "melodic" score that "evokes not only a period but also the mood of a city... undergoing galvanic changes" and that "[the] small-town feel to the street and sets, seeming oh-so-quaint to modern eyes, captures a society resistant to seeing what is really going on".[53]