2007 · thriller · drama
Michael Clayton
Directed by Tony Gilroy2h 0m2007
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 multi-billion dollar class action suit.
Our read: Michael Clayton (2007) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- twisty
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