…From the Hip is a wildly problematic film that never tonally matches the light central performance to the serious story…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2023

It's a fairly good film of fits and starts.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 25, 2021

The courtroom shenanigans have absolutely no basis in reality, and while they're occasionally entertaining, they're mostly as overdone and tasteless as the action in Clark's other films.

| Sep 25, 2021

It's such an embarrassingly lame comedy that you could easily imagine some mischievous attorney filing suit -- for defamation of the entire profession.

| Sep 25, 2021

Stormy is the richest and most adult character Judd Nelson has played. And Nelson gives the welcome impression that he is growing up and coming to terms with things.

| Sep 25, 2021

The story is interesting and the movie is well acted by Elizabeth Perkins, Darren McGavin, Nancy Marchand, Ray Walston, David Alan Grier, and others.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 25, 2021

The flow of obnoxious silliness starts in the first 10 minutes. It's relentless, and you have wonder early why $10 million was spent in making the movie, and why the filmmakers invested two years of their lives on it.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 25, 2021

A rather preposterous courtroom comedy graced with a touch of class by John Hurt's masterly performance as the accused murderer.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 25, 2021

It is far too serious, too often, and Judd has to emote -- and you know what that means: the Nasal Method, nostrils a-flaring.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 25, 2021

"From the Hip" has its heart in the wrong place. That it even has a heart is part of the problem. This picture needs to be considerably more ruthless than it is.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 25, 2021

Director/co-writer Clark probably could make an offensive film on almost any subject. This time the subject is the legal system.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 25, 2021

From the Hip is sort of like a bratpack version of And Justice for All, which is to say the film is narcissistic trash as opposed to just plain trash.

| Sep 25, 2021

Nelson, who has never been one of my favorite actors, seems to be having the time of his career.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2021

An almost excessively erratic legal drama...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 29, 2014

A trial, for sure.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2005

Yeah, the movie with Judd Nelson as the lawyer with a in his briefcase.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 6, 2005

Starts out as a wild satire on the legal profession and veers into a serious look at legal ethics.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2004

Hold them for contempt of audience.

| May 21, 2003