There’s a fresh thrill in seeing the conventions of the courtroom drama trotted out for the first time, and its lingering sense of moral ambiguity is still jarring.

| Apr 27, 2024

The questions, like the suspense, mount explosively... And even as movie-goers file out of the theater, some of the issues remain in doubt.

| Jan 16, 2024

... crackles as Stewart and Scott spar with witnesses and one another: the cagey country lawyer hiding his endgame behind a folksy manner versus the smart, sarcastic, thoroughly urban legal eagle who makes a show of his intelligence and showmanship.

| Aug 19, 2023

With no character shown to be faultless, the movie's real masterstroke is to expose the messiness of criminal trials and America's divides.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2023

Director Preminger has worked out his canvas with minute thoroughness. The film is two hours and 40 minutes long, but so absorbing is it that it seems short.

| Jun 23, 2021

People will talk about this startling courtroom drama.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 23, 2021

An exercise in moral ambiguity and borderline procedural, Preminger's roots as a student of law in his native Austria certainly pay off for what may arguably be one of his best films.

| Nov 19, 2020

It's a taut series of duels between quick-thinkers, each one distinctly deceptive, hilarious, calculating, and creative.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 15, 2020

The film is lengthy, with an ending that is both enigmatic and ironic, but presented with such finesse and pace that it is guaranteed to hold your interest from start to finish.

| Jun 18, 2020

A top-notch courtroom drama, adapted from the popular novel by Robert Traver.

| Oct 30, 2019

[A] fierce, uncompromising exploration of the American legal system.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 4, 2019

Anatomy of a Murder remains an at times shocking indictment of Eisenhower-era America and an all-around terrific thriller.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 24, 2019

Otto Preminger's cynical view of the judicial system is curiously contemporary and still serves as a blueprint for numerous 온라인카지노추천 'tec shows.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2013

This is probably the greatest courtroom drama ever made and it features James Stewart's finest screen performance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 6, 2013

(Stewart's character) finishes the film an enigma, possibly the good go-getter of Capra but too much of a shadow.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jun 8, 2012

Otto Preminger, no stranger to ruffling moral-watchdog feathers, never succumbs to the sleaziness inherent in the material, instead turning out an intelligent and tightly controlled drama that ranks as one of the all-time great courtroom procedurals.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 25, 2012

Even with the glut of crime-related 온라인카지노추천 dramas that pepper today's screens, you'd be hard pressed to find a courtroom story that doesn't have you rooting one way or the other with a heavy-handed POV. This one doesn't it's way ahead of its time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2012

simultaneously plays by and punctures the expectations of the courtroom thriller

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 1, 2012

As courtroom thrillers go, it has few peers.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 23, 2012

At 160 minutes, Anatomy is longer than the subject warrants, but the pace seldom slackens -- thanks to the competence of Director Otto Preminger.

| Apr 24, 2009