The Lincoln Lawyer
Directed by: Brad Furman
Written by: John Romano (screenplay), Michael Connelly (book)
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, and William H. Macy
Matthew McConaughey is one of the most knocked around actors working in the modern Hollywood studio system. He’s so derided by critics that people forget that he can actually act. So here he is in The Lincoln Lawyer, putting on a shirt and a serious face and earning back some street cred.
Directed by Brad Furman with a keen sense of what thrills and what doesn’t, The Lincoln Lawyer is a court procedural that stresses politics outside the courtroom as much as in them. It’s a movie with a story to tell (one originated by Michael Connelly), one that isn’t watered down to the basics or drowned out by explosions.
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