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Aug 15, 2023 · Gerardo Valero August 15, 2023. Tweet. Sidney Lumet ’s “ The Verdict ” is the best courtroom drama ever. It is also one of those rare features that doesn’t wear down with repeated viewings. That would seem odd for an entry that’s best remembered for the shock of its resolution, which should only be able to surprise the audience the ...
- The Verdict (1982) 88%
- Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) 88%
- Murder on The Orient Express (1974) 89%
- Serpico (1973) 90%
- Prince of The City (1981) 91%
- Network (1976) 92%
- Fail-Safe (1964) 93%
- Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) 94%
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 95%
- 12 Angry Men (1957) 100%
Written by David Mamet, The Verdict stars Paul Newmanas a high-functioning alcoholic lawyer who has a major moment of clarity when upon taking on a malpractice lawsuit. Frank Galvin (Newman) is a disgraced Bostonian litigator who spends his downtime sipping spirits in a barroom. Nearly disbarred in the past while losing his wife, Frank finds a chan...
With an 88% Certified Fresh Rating, Lumet proved he was just as vital in his final film as he was his first 50 years earlier. Before the Devil Knows You're Deadwas named Movie of the Year by the AFI in 2008. The film follows estranged brothers Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Hank (Ethan Hawke), who upon hard times, decide to rob their own parent'...
Based on the classic Agatha Christie whodunit, Murder on the Orient Express is a star-studded affair featuring the likes of Albert Finney, Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Martin Balsam, Vanessa Redgrave, and many more. RELATED: 10 Best Agatha Christie Movie Adaptations, According To IMDB Finney stars s Belgian super-sleuth, Hercule Poi...
As a countercultural beat-cop in New York City, Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) fight systemic corruption within the police force despite the lack of support from his partners and colleagues. Serpico is an honest cop beholden to his moral compass in the face of serious misdeeds among his precinct. While his partners continue to skim money off the crimina...
In another tale of rampant police corruption, Lumet earned an Oscar nomination for screen-adapting Robert Daley's 1978 book Prince of the City. The film tracks narcotics detective Danny Ciello (Treat Williams), a shady NYC cop who upon getting busted agrees to help the police commission root out systemic police corruption. However, once Ciello agre...
Lumet's Networkis widely regarded as one of the finest films ever made. Currently ranked #207 on IMDB'S Top 250 to go with its Certified Fresh Rating, the film won four Academy Awards. Written by Paddy Chayefsky in an Oscar-winning screenplay, the film presages the trend of exploiting TV news for ratings. When longtime news anchor Howard Beale (Pet...
In the cautionary Cold-War tale, Fail-Safeimagines a race for nuclear deterrence among the U.S and Soviet Union. Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau costar in the film. Due to a technical glitch, an American warplane is sent to drop to a nuclear bomb over Moscow. In a rush to reverse the order, tensions on both sides of the potential war rise in a thril...
Based on the classic Eugene O'Neill play, Lumet directed screen legend Katherine Hepburn to an Oscar-nominated performance in Long Day's Journey Into Night. RELATED: 10 Best Broadway Movie Adaptations Co-starring Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell, and Jeanne Barr, the story concerns a wealthy family gathered at the end of a long summe...
Lumet's Dog Day Afternoonis not only regarded as one of the all-time best heist films, but it's also been recognized as an early champion of gay and trans-rights over the past 45 years. Based on a true story highlighted in a magazine article written by P.F. Kluge, the film follows Sonny (Al Pacino), a man who decides to rob a bank to pay for his tr...
Lumet's first film still ranks as his finest, according to Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, and Metascore. The story about a prejudicial jury panel that slowly opens their mind and changes their opinion on a murder case is simply beyond reproach. 12 Angry Mencenters on a jury deliberation of a young man who may have murdered his own father. Despite the limit...
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As a courtroom drama, "The Verdict" is superior work. But the director and the star of this film, Sidney Lumet and Paul Newman, seem to be going for something more; "The Verdict" is more a character study than a thriller, and the buried suspense in this movie is more about Galvin's own life than about his latest case.
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My short synopsis most likely doesn’t do justice to The Verdict, the great Sidney Lumet’s film often hailed as one of the best courtroom dramas ever made, but the very fact I chose to concentrate more on the protagonist than the legal case that may or may not turn his life around testifies to what kind of a film this really is.
May 13, 2019 · May 13, 2019May 12, 2023 John Hansen. “The Verdict” (1982) is most known for the engrossing turn by Paul Newman as a down-and-out lawyer who gets obsessed with one case, but it’s also the pinnacle of the courtroom drama form under the eye of legendary director Sidney Lumet (“12 Angry Men”) and an early example of David Mamet’s chug ...
A Stranger Among Us is a 1992 American crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Melanie Griffith. It tells the story of an undercover police officer's experiences in a Hasidic community. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. It is often cited as one of Lumet's two failures of the 1990s, the other being Guilty as Sin ...
Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet, produced by John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin, and based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie .
