Paul Newman delivers a note-perfect performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 23, 2024

The portentousness is often a disservice to the actors, embedded in dead air with roles too feebly written to get the ventilation going.

| Mar 1, 2024

It's Newman's performance itself that really makes this film work and helps it truly get close to Lumet's own '12 Angry Men'.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2024

It is difficult to remember a courtroom drama of such efficiency as The Verdict, nor better performances from Newman.

| Mar 24, 2023

…still works, largely due to Newman’s untypical performance that drives the narrative beyond character study to high drama…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2022

Dated by the slew of movies and 온라인카지노추천 series that have followed, this 1982 courtroom drama, while solid enough, suffers from not delving enough into its main character.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2021

Not only is it the top-shelf courtroom drama it is renowned to be thirty years later, the film is an outstanding character piece and a little bit of a lawyer's equivalent to a "one last score" job.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 12, 2021

Reform and redemption in an anti-hero are always rewarding transformations to watch.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 8, 2020

The Verdict, starring Paul Newman, is stronger on local atmosphere than plot plausibility.

| Feb 26, 2020

The actors mechanically repeat a script that wasn't written with originality. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 28, 2019

Lumet was convinced that Paul Newman was the perfect actor for the film; and he was completely right. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 27, 2019

The acting is good, and it maintains your interest. But when it comes to the same old negative portrayal of women, The Verdict is guilty.

| Aug 20, 2019

Paul Newman has the role of his later career. He uses none of his blue-eyed charm, and scarcely ever smiles except while telling bar jokes. He IS the bruised Frank Galvin, and you feel for him with every shot of Irish whiskey and every legal defeat.

| Nov 12, 2018

This is realistic American film acting at its veristic/imaginative best.

| Jan 8, 2018

Count me among those who think the Best Actor Oscar that Paul Newman won for "The Color of Money" was a make-up call. The groundwork was laid right here in "The Verdict," and with the equally accomplished "Absence of Malice" a year earlier.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 15, 2013

This is as good a role as Mr. Newman has ever had, and as shrewd and substantial a performance as he has ever given, although it may not be his most entirely credible.

| Jul 6, 2010

Sidney Lumet directs effectively, keeping the tension strong, and unfolding David Mamet's intelligent screenplay slowly but with maximum impact.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 30, 2008

There are many fine performances and sensitive moral issues contained in The Verdict but somehow that isn't enough to make it the compelling film it should be.

| Jun 30, 2008

Paul Newman goes into court a drunken bum and comes out a better man in this superb legal drama about a man finding redemption.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 30, 2008

Sidney Lumet's direction, like David Mamet's patchy script, may not be quite good enough to justify the Rembrandt-like cinematography of Edward Pisoni and the brooding mood of self-importance, but it's good direction nonetheless.

| Jun 30, 2008