Fresh
Justice is seldom as deep or trenchant as it wants to be, but there's abundant pleasure to be gleaned from skating along its surfaces.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
...And Justice for All
Once in a while someone fights back.
1979 · 1h 59m · R
Drama
Directed by
Norman Jewison
Overview
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
Director and cast
- Norman Jewison Director
- Al Pacino as Arthur Kirkland
- Jack Warden as Judge Francis Rayford
- John Forsythe as Judge Henry T. Fleming
- Christine Lahti as Gail Packer
- Lee Strasberg as Grandpa Sam
- Jeffrey Tambor as Jay Porter
- Sam Levene as Arnie
- Robert Christian as Ralph Agee
- Thomas G. Waites as Jeff McCullaugh (as Thomas Waites)
- Larry Bryggman Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
81%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Attempts to alternate between comedy and drama, handling neither one incompetently, but also not excelling at either task.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
With the exception of Mr. Strasberg and Mr. Levene, the actors are as hysterical as their material.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
Here's an angry comedy crossed with an expose and held together by one of those high-voltage Al Pacino performances that's so sure of itself we hesitate to demur.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
...And Justice for All has no part in the stock trade of shock witnesses and surprising revelations. This is about how too many guilty people walk while the innocent take their places in overcrowded jails.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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