Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho reflects on his screen legacy — and subverts it — in a contemporary western

Through the bajillion films Clint Eastwood has made over the past 66 years, he’s arguably done more than any one other single person in Hollywood to prop up – and demolish – American fantasies of heroism.

On screen, he’s embodied a motley gang of taciturn male loners living by a personal code…