Popcorn, please. This is the final movie I’m reviewing in my search for the Greatest Lawyer Movie of All Time (#GLMOAT #bittersweet). It’s #7 on the ABA’s Top 25, and a worthy entry for consideration. Breaker Morant 1980 dir. Bruce…
Movie lawyers have battled discrimination, hate speech, corporate malfeasance, political corruption, and even Santa skepticism. It is hard to imagine a court case with higher stakes, however, than that at the center of #24 on the ABA Top 25. Amistad…
Joanne Kramer played by Meryl Streep. Overrated. BIGLY overrated. Sad! The search for the greatest lawyer movie of all time is almost over. Of the ABA’s Top 25, only six remain, and one of those is “Chicago,” which I feel…
This week, in belated honor of this past Saturday’s Women’s March, I decided to watch a juggernaut on the ABA Top 25, one of the most celebrated legal movies in recent memory… Erin Brockovich 2000 dir. Steven Soderbergh If Atticus…
Gregory Peck, all of America wants you to be our dad. As America bids farewell to its own real-life Atticus Finch, I thought it would be a good time to watch #1 on the ABA’s List of the 25 Greatest…
You’re a big boy/girl, so you quite likely can handle the truth. This week, after months of procrastinating, I decided to pony up the requisite $7.99 and watch #14 on the ABA’s Top 25, perhaps the most iconic lawyer movie…
This dude is just as surprised as you are that he made the ABA Top 25 Lawyer Movies. This week, with ambient Christmas music having burrowed its way deep into my subconscious, I decided to watch a Christmas classic, #25…
For some reason, this week I decided to watch #8 on the ABA’s Top 25, a movie that may be the most gut-wrenching on the list… Philadelphia 1993 dir. Jonathan Demme Lawyer movies, like the courts themselves, are often forums…
Ow. This week, to cheer up from my post-election blues, I decided to watch #21 on the ABA Top 25 list of great lawyer movies, a film about an innocent man and his father on trial for a pair of…
For this week’s edition of The Greatest Lawyer Movies of All Time, I decided to watch #12 on the ABA’s Top 25… Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 dir. Stanley Kramer In normal times, it’s considered an affront to rhetorical decency to…