The Judge (2014)
First screened in February 2014
Director: David Dobkin. Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jeremy Strong, Vera Farmiga, Leighton Meester, Dax Shepard, Ken Howard, Emma Tremblay, David Krumholtz, Balthazar Getty, Grace Zabriskie, Denis O'Hare. Screenplay: Gillian Flynn (based on her novel). Twitter Capsule:
Only unifying elements: literalism and bad taste. Demands harsh scrutiny of everybody's choices, including the viewer's.
VOR:①
What's to say that hasn't been said? Why say anything at all? This would have looked anachronistic and TNT-ready a decade ago, if not two or three. Expensive, unfocused, embarrassing.
