[...] as predictable as it sounds, “The Judge” is anything but that. The film might be a family drama, but it’s refreshingly adult [...] and filled with surprising emotional honesty.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

The familiarity of the story hurts what is Dobkin's otherwise pleasantly sincere and straightforward direction, and a number of fine performances.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 18, 2022

Robert Duvall gives a startlingly visceral performance in Robert Downey Jr's courtroom drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 26, 2021

The hardest working movie in show business. It's a film that wants to check all the boxes and tries just a little too hard.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2021

The supporting cast is a stellar assemblage of character actors, each offering a level of entertainment to compensate for lingering moments of overly sentimental reminiscence.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2020

It vacillates between middlebrow familial melodrama, murder mystery, and half-baked courtroom drama.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 6, 2019

It'll be great to watch while ironing your clothes one day.

| Aug 31, 2019

A surprisingly moving and compelling drama which, despite a lengthy running time, does not outstay its welcome and gives Downey Jr. scope to exhibit his considerable talents.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 31, 2019

There are the makings of a good, old-fashioned family drama here, but the film is bogged down by cliché and predictability that permeate the script.

| Mar 2, 2019

Robert Downey Jr. relishes this role, and it shows.

| Jan 30, 2019

A good example of talented actors taking mediocre material and making it passable entertainment.

| Jan 25, 2019

THE JUDGE is nothing more than an overwrought family film with a random appearance by Billy Bob Thornton and a few F-bombs for dramatic effect.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 8, 2018

In the end, the absolutely brilliant performances of Downey and Duvall make the movie worth every minute, despite the shortcomings of the script.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 3, 2018

It's not particularly surprising, but I admit it was an agreeable and sometimes emotional experience [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 30, 2018

For a 140 minute movie, it's just painstakingly obvious that there is material here that should have been chopped out

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 2, 2017

This is a tale encapsulated simply enough within the deceptively simple parenthesis of a small-town family bonding saga. And of course, Downey and Duvall shine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 11, 2017

The main issue with The Judge is that it's too long and schmaltzy, and the length makes the schmaltz worse because you have that much longer to be aware of it.

| Oct 18, 2017

Downey's Hank is basically Downey playing a character carefully calibrated for audience sympathies -- hey he's a smug jerk of a lawyer but he's a really good Dad to his loving young daughter.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 28, 2017

It remains watchable to the very end, mostly thanks to a stolid cast that absolutely refuses to be sucked into the muddied tropes that make up the screenplay.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 14, 2016

One of those films that goes under the radar but has everything in it, making it a great film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 11, 2016