Michael Clayton(2007)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.



Frost/Nixon(2008)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.



3:10 to Yuma(2007)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.



Erin Brockovich(2000)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 76

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.



Intolerable Cruelty(2003)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A beautiful gold digger matches wits with a shrewd Beverly Hills divorce lawyer who is increasingly attracted to her.



Fracture(2007)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

An attorney, intent on climbing the career ladder toward success, finds an unlikely opponent in a manipulative criminal he is trying to prosecute.



The Reader(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.



Role Models(2008)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Wild behavior forces a pair of energy drink reps to enroll in a Big Brother program.



Secretary(2002)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.



Runaway Jury(2003)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.



A Prairie Home Companion(2006)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.



Old School(2003)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Three friends attempt to recapture their glory days by opening up a fraternity near their alma mater.



The International(2009)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

An Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring.



My Sister's Keeper(2009)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Anna Fitzgerald looks to earn medical emancipation from her parents who until now have relied on their youngest child to help their leukemia-stricken daughter Kate remain alive.



Boiler Room(2000)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A college dropout, attempting to win back his father's high standards he gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it once appeared to be.



The Exorcism of Emily Rose(2005)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.



Find Me Guilty(2006)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 68

In the late 1980s, a low level gangster named Jackie DiNorscio defends himself in court in what became the longest criminal trial in American judicial history.



The Conspirator(2010)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.



The Ice Harvest(2005)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.



Law Abiding Citizen(2009)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.




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