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  Review by David Sims ★★★★ 3

  medium-paced early 90s legal thrillers are basically just hard drugs to me

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★★ 1

  You're a strange man Mr. Dershowitz...

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  Review by Matthew Christman ★★★★ 5

  Cigarette-holding clinic here.

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  Review by Bobby Finger ★★★★ 1

  Glenn’s in a coma 95% of the time, but in the 5% where she’s conscious she A) feeds a baby tiger, and B) stares into the middle distance with a cigarette in her hand while saying, “I’m thinking of redecorating this whole fucking house.”

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  Review by Josh Gillam ★★★½ 2

  The story of Claus von Bülow (Jeremy Irons), a socialite convicted for the attempted murder of his wife Sunny (Glenn Close) and defended by lawyer Alan Dershowitz (Ron Silver) at his appeal, is dramatised in this mystery drama directed by Barbet Schroeder from Dershowitz’s book.

  From the opening tracking shot showing rows upon rows of mansions, the themes of double standards and affluence are presented, as von Bülow is only able to get an appeal due to his wealth and status, while the working class black young men Dershowitz also defends has to be done pro bono.

  It’s a fascinating story, and Irons’ unnerving, slightly creepy performance adds so much to the tale, at times reminding me a bit of…

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  Review by Jizzmonkey ★★★

  My Gen Z nephew, JJ, has had a run-in with the law. Something about a warehouse full of lighting gear disappearing. Not just the lights stored in there gone missing but the whole fucking warehouse, the structure itself, as well. Now, I know he didn't do it. I served on a jury once, so I looked at JJ's eyes and I can tell he's innocent. All of my lawyers, apart from the two jaywalking specialists, are doing time at Rikers. Can anyone recommend a lawyer to help with JJ's situation? They need to be tough as nails, super smart, and preferably unable to get into the country club I was forced by family tradition to belong to.

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★ 1

  Glenn Close’s last lines are going to stick with me.

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  Review by chavel ★★★★★ 3

  An aerial shot that opens is like no other, it starts overlooking over the exclusive Easton Bay and then turns upwards, with the shot swooping over estate after estate in ritzy Rhode Island for nearly a minute. In an overhead shot, these are the richest looking houses you've ever seen, property after property, perfectly, lushly landscaped. What is delivered in this Barbet Schroeder film is a snoop into the high society of this country (the living style is more Old English than American), and in a way, this hasn't been a film that has been as highly valued as it should in passing years considering how it is a peerless perception of the elite, snide upper class that not really…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★½

  i wonder if Claus von Bülow has a little statue on his desk of two frogs fucking in real life.

  i wish this were an Errol Morris documentary.

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  Review by Matt Erspamer ★★★

  one of Felicity Huffman’s lines in this is “Why help guilty people get off?”

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  Review by Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti" ★★★★½

  "Reversal of Fortune" is a 1990 drama directed by Barbet Schroeder. The film has a thriller element with twists and turns, but it is all embedded within the context of a of a high society melodrama and procedural court room film all rolled into the embodiment of one. Based on the true historical narrative from the book "Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case" by Alan Dershowitz, the film takes author Dershowitz and his team into the story and examines the context on the team as they investigate and attempt to acquit socialite Claus von Bülow from the crime of attempted murder. As all circumstantial evidence was seemingly pointed in his direction spoke to his "guilt" at face value…

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  Review by Matt Gourley 2

  Good wigs.