...a fairly standard legal procedural that’s elevated by its raft of agreeable, engaging attributes...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2023

Woods' angry energy is clarifying as well as terrifying, and when he unleashes it (usually without warning), the effect is to focus our attention where it belongs, not on a suspense story but on the mysteries of human behavior.

| Apr 16, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2008

Woods, as ever, is wired for a fight -- in or outside the courtroom. It's all Downey Jr can do to hold him back.

| Feb 27, 2008

Woods clearly relishes his chance to display a wide range of emotions within his patented maverick persona, and Downey also acquits himself well in a much less challenging role.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2006

A riveting legal drama.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2004

Really clicks as a modern day morality play.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2004

One of the best courtroom dramas ever made, and a movie that almost nobody knows about. A terrific picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 15, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 30, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2002

Ruben relies too heavily on Woods' whirring turbines to power his scenes.

| Jan 1, 2000