This gripping legal drama is based on a case we still don’t know the truth of — which might make it seem like a pointless exercise, were it not for the fact that it’s infectiously fascinated by greater questions.

| Original Score: 74/100 | Jul 28, 2023

Reversal of Fortune is very well written, very well acted, and very well directed. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 30, 2022

As distant and icy as Jeremy Irons' Oscar-winning performance as suspected murderer Claus von Bülow, but like Irons' inscrutable steeliness, it's also endlessly compelling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2020

Enormously entertaining.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 19, 2020

Despite Silver's great energy, what's missing from the picture are the kind of insights necessary to explain any of the film's characters, including himself, in human terms.

| Jun 17, 2020

온라인카지노추천 might make cautionary stick figures of Claus and Sunny. Reversal of Fortune treats them as if they were Noel Coward lovers gone to hell in a Lamborghini.

| Jun 17, 2020

Von Bulow is an enigma with a sense of humor, and that's exactly the way Irons plays him. Dershowitz is a man of exceptional cunning, and that's the way Silvers plays him. Their performances, and that of Close, will probably win Oscar nominations.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 17, 2020

Irons' Von Bulow is easily the most attractive and entertaining movie heavy since James Mason`s villain in North by Northwest, a figure with whom he shares a taste for elegant homes and wry understatement.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 17, 2020

Barbet Schroeder directed the ingeniously made film, which weaves fact, hypothesis, and conjecture into a harrowing yet continually gripping and often highly amusing narrative.

| Jun 17, 2020

Director Barbet Schroeder shoots The Great Gatsby-style setting with a documentary eye and gives the picture a deep sense of irony -- a quality enhanced by Irons's superb performance.

| Jun 17, 2020

A window on the world of the very rich, an exploration of the legal process and a story of a most corrupt marriage -- Reversal of Fortune is juicy fare.

| Jun 17, 2020

Though weak in several vital departments, the intricate structure of the film is so compellingly offbeat and the acting so overwhelmingly first-rate, that any reservations are eventually swept aside.

| Jun 17, 2020

It's a movie that outdoes the seamiest of soap operas. And it's all the more engaging because it's true.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2020

What a brilliant and unexpected and wickedly perverse movie this is.

| Jun 17, 2020

Mixing reality and fiction, without using that mixture to produce any substantial addition to our knowledge, this movie at once goes too far and not far enough.

| Jun 15, 2020

Screenwriter Nicholas Kazan, director Barbet Schroeder and, especially, Jeremy Irons--in a glittering performance as the divinely decadent Dane--have chosen to treat this social death spiral as a tragicomedy of manners. It's an inspired tone.

| Jun 15, 2020

In Barbet Schroeder's spellbinding Reversal of Fortune, Jeremy Irons plays the pure incarnation of evil.

| Jun 15, 2020

The trial of Claus von Bulow has been turned into more of a rumination on the American criminal justice system with a strong focus on celebrity defense counsel.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2020

In a more contemporary vein, Reversal of Fortune, the von Bulow story, combines inspired casting with a lethal dose of wit.

| Oct 15, 2019

Gripping drama.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 22, 2013