Everyone knows the Lance Armstrong story: Cocky young talent cut down at age 25 in 1996 by testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain.

FORBES: Last Chance To See Lance

Eastwood and the screenwriter Dustin Lance Black have re-created that period in the nineteen-twenties and thirties when a righteous young man with a stentorian style could electrify a nation.

NEWYORKER: The Man in Charge