Cruise’s toothy heroics are ill-suited to moral complexity, but he is elevated by a stellar supporting cast...

| Nov 15, 2022

Those who admired the book will despise the movie and vice versa. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 9, 2022

The first adaptation of a John Grisham novel to top the box office, The Firm successfully feels like a mass-market page-turner.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 16, 2020

Tom Cruise is blessed with the amazing ensemble... and a screenplay contribution from Robert Towne, yet the result is a pat paper chase-cum-thriller that's looking constantly to break the surface.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 6, 2020

A summer genre movie for grown-ups, The Firm helps restore faith in Hollywood professionalism.

| May 15, 2018

The Firm is soft -- lumpy in its plotting and almost silly at times.

| May 15, 2018

...a completely passable adaptation that never quite becomes the classic legal thriller it wants to be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 24, 2017

...pits Cruise against the world, with only his character's wit.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 19, 2011

Too-long Grisham thriller is full of adult themes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2009

Tom Cruise heads a tony cast in a best-seller movie that is firm at the start and infirm by the end.

| May 26, 2008

The Firm amusingly satirizes the New Traditionalist aspirations of today's young urban elite -- not so much the lifestyle itself as the illusion of utter security it represents.

| Original Score: B | May 26, 2008

This is a professional machine of a movie that compresses huge amounts of information into its two and a half hours of screen time. But it's so weighed down by detail, it fails to generate any real suspense.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2008

A smooth adaptation of John Grisham's giant bestseller that is destined to be one of the summer's strong audience pleasers.

Full Review | May 26, 2008

The first in a long series of unsatisfying Grisham adaptations.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 6, 2007

This legal thriller is smartly directed and well scripted (by some of Hollywood's top writers), but, alas, Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise, playing yet another variation of his screen image.

| Original Score: B | Jul 15, 2006

What starts out as interesting becomes increasingly hokey and silly -- Wilford Brimley is ludicrously cast as the firm's senior hit man -- where it should be intense and suspenseful.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 4, 2006