The Judge (2014) Reviews & Ratings

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The Judge reviews

The Judge holds a 7.3/10 average from 4,622 TMDB ratings.

_"It's fine. Innocent people can't afford me."_ This movie came and went and no one really cared so I never checked it out til now. Pity it didn't do well because while the story is ok, the acting is pretty good. RDJ, Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jeremy Strong, Billy Bob? This thing is packed! Might be a little too long, but the emotional father parts got to me.
— Narate (6/10)

"Hank" (Robert Downey Jr) is one of those shrewd and unscrupulous defence lawyers who always manages to get his dodgy clients off - even when he suspects that they are as guilty as sin. He's had a long-term estranged relationship with his dad, the judge of forty-two years (Robert Duvall) which a trip back home for his mother's funeral does little to repair, but shortly after he returns to Chicago he gets a call to a…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.

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