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Michael Clayton Reviews (Good)

• Variety: Michael Clayton Review
  • "Spare and unhurried, writer Tony Gilroy's directorial debut "Michael Clayton" features strong performances and a solid story, drawn from the familiar well of faceless corporations grinding ordinary people through their profit-making machinery."
• USAToday.com: Michael Clayton Review (4/4)  
  • "This is unequivocally a thriller for adults. A deftly written, tautly suspenseful and intellectually demanding morality tale, it stays a step ahead of the audience and features multidimensional characters played by actors at the top of their games."
• Rolling Stone: Michael Clayton Review (3.5/4)
  • "Deliberate, demanding and character-driven, Michael Clayton flies in the face of what sells at the multiplex."
• New York Daily News: George Clooney delivers powerful case in Michael Clayton (3.5/4)
  • "Tony Gilroy, co-author of the superb Jason Bourne film trilogy, makes a stunning directorial debut with "Michael Clayton," an out-of-courtroom drama that helps solidify George Clooney's acting bona fides."
• The A.V. Club: Michael Clayton Review
  • "With his directorial debut Michael Clayton Gilroy shifts his focus from international espionage to corporate duplicity and sinister legal machinations, but retains an emotional palette rich in grays and black." (Grade: B+)
• Guardian Unlimited: Michael Clayton Review (4/5)
  • "As a corporate-paranoia movie, Michael Clayton has something in common with Michael Mann's The Insider, and at a further remove with Coppola's The Conversation."
• Las Vegas Weekly: Michael Clayton Review (3.5/4)
  • "Although Gilroy’s style recalls paranoid ’70s conspiracy thrillers, his plot—especially with its overly neat ending—is more along the lines of a John Grisham adaptation. But the combination works, keeping you involved and in suspense until the last moment, when Gilroy holds on a close-up of Clooney, looking just as exhausted and satisfied as the audience."

Michael Clayton Reviews (Neutral)

• The Christian Science Monitor: In Michael Clayton, A Whistle-Blower Runs For Ethical Cover (Grade: B-)
  • "Without the steadfast intelligence of Clooney's performance, "Michael Clayton" wouldn't work half as well as it does."
• Chicago Reader: Michael Clayton Review
  • "The plot elements are painfully familiar, but the story is just solid enough to support the entertaining star turns: Clooney is lined and wearily handsome; Wilkinson rants like King Lear; Tilda Swinton, as a corrupt counsel, is alternately ruthless and terrified; and Sydney Pollack, as the firm's head honcho, could make genocide seem reasonable."
• New York Magazine: Scandal Janitor - Michael Clayton Review
  • "Michael Clayton is a vastly different kind of conspiracy thriller. It’s not one of those jittery motion-sickness pictures that accelerate around every narrative curve. It holds to a measured beat, to the point where you feel a growing impatience—a good impatience, like when you’re reading some potboiler and can’t breathe too easily and can’t turn the pages fast enough."

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