Critic’s Appreciation: Few Actors Could Go as Terrifyingly Big, and as Hauntingly Small, as Robert Duvall
Hollywood Reporter
by Jordan MintzerFebruary 17, 2026
His range was like a swinging pendulum of human temperament, allowing him to be bellowing and destructive or discreet and vulnerable — sometimes within a single film or even a single scene.
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Originally published on Hollywood Reporter on 2/17/2026