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Michael Clayton

2007 · Thriller · Tony Gilroy · 1h 59m

A law firm's fixer is sent to clean up after their star litigator falls apart in the middle of defending a chemical company. Grown-ups in offices talking, and it tightens slowly.

  • Strongly realistic

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    Describe: The Secret in Their Eyes

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    A Boston gangster becomes an FBI informant and uses the arrangement to take over the city, while the agent who signed him up keeps covering for him. Cold and talky, with long scenes of men at tables.

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    Describe: Black Mass

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    Two little girls vanish from a street on Thanksgiving, and while a detective works the case one of the fathers decides the police are moving too slowly. Long, dark and rainy, and it gets ugly.

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    Describe: Prisoners

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