The Lincoln Lawyer

    The Lincoln Lawyer
    2011

    Synopsis

    A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.

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    Cast

    • Matthew McConaugheyMickey Haller
    • Marisa TomeiMaggie McPherson
    • Ryan PhillippeLouis Roulet
    • William H. MacyFrank Levin
    • Josh LucasTed Minton
    • John LeguizamoVal Valenzuela
    • Michael PeñaJesus Martinez
    • Bob GuntonCecil Dobbs
    • Frances FisherMary Windsor
    • Bryan CranstonDetective Lankford

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Boxoffice Magazine

      The most surprising courtroom drama since 1985's "Jagged Edge," The Lincoln Lawyer is a don't-miss cinematic page-turner with enough twists to fill five movies.
    • 75

      Orlando Sentinel

      Populated with a peerless supporting cast, actors who bring just the right history to their roles.
    • 75

      Entertainment Weekly

      Plot leaps that are fun on paper look generic on screen; here's another lawyer movie in which the characters are only as interesting as the actors playing them.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      In the best tradition of mystery thrillers of this sort, it satisfies enough on an emotional level that we're willing to forgive any intellectual, procedural, and logical shortcomings.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The film is only "superior" though, not great. The themes feel shopworn and devotee of crime fiction can point to the any number of antecedents for these characters.
    • 67

      Tampa Bay Times

      The next step in Matthew McConaughey's inevitable march to network television is The Lincoln Lawyer, a pilot disguised as a feature-length movie, with an entire season's arc crammed into two hours.
    • 60

      Variety

      It's easy enough to just soak up star Matthew McConaughey's good-ol'-boy appeal and overlook the film's stilted dialogue, bizarre directorial indulgences, excessive running time and boilerplate "Law and Order"-style narrative.
    • 60

      Arizona Republic

      The story, based on the Michael Connelly novel, grows increasingly far-fetched - at times it plays like an expensive pilot for a TV series, maybe a "Young Barnaby Jones" or something.

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