Pakula is an excellent actors director, and has this well in hand. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 24, 2022

Presumed Innocent plays the audience for chumps in order to spring its closing-reel Big Whammy.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 12, 2022

Where Presumed Innocent really takes off, though, and begins to catch an authentic flavour of the book is in the courtroom performances.

| Jan 11, 2020

...a refreshingly adult drama that certainly captures the spirit of Turow's padded-out book.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 17, 2019

It is intelligent and absorbing, but it is an entertainment.

| Apr 9, 2019

The movie is plump with twists, turns and blind alleys. Who can be trusted? Who is innocent? Who is guilty?

| Jun 12, 2018

Pakula's strong suit has always been his work with actors, and he's got a lot of good ones at his disposal. Ford gives a smart, self-effacing performance.

| Feb 6, 2018

The film's densely constructed trial sequences are freighted with rich detail, unexpected turns and intimate insights into the criminal justice system.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 27, 2016

It presents a more intriguing and certainly more complicated portrait of cinema's historic struggle with representations of female agency and sexuality.

| Jul 30, 2015

This could have been a great movie, but, despite being a darn good yarn well told, the essential magic is somehow missing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2013

A thudding disappointment.

| Jul 31, 2013

Conscientiously as this movie has been made, it does not work as well as the novel did or as some of Pakula's other films have.

| Jul 31, 2013

Never less than engrossing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2013

Pakula and the cast are excellent in the cut and thrust debates and the grilling of witnesses. At least on the surface, Presumed Innocent unfolds in the grand tradition of great courtroom drama. But nothing in Presumed Innocent is what it seems.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2013

When you get right down to it, Presumed Innocent is really just an elaborate version of the standard courtroom drama -- souped-up Perry Mason. On the other hand, this is as good as Perry Mason gets.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2013

Presumed Innocent is a stylish, dark-toned movie with handsome photography (by Gordon Willis) and solid performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2013

Pakula keeps the suspense level high throughout and effectively brings off a series of twists at the end.

Full Review | Jul 31, 2013

A ponderous adaptation of Scott Turow's cunningly plotted mystery novel.

| Jul 31, 2013

Intelligent, complex and enthralling.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 31, 2013

The performances are capable, if rarely inspired.

| Jul 31, 2013