“The film doesn’t disappoint. It’s an enveloping thriller with a cool intelligence, the kind of film Redford or Newman would have jumped at 15 or 20 years ago.”
Screened in tribute to Tom Wilkinson (1948 - 2023)
George Clooney stars as Michael Clayton: "fixer" at a New York corporate law firm, taking care of his employer's dirty work. Burned out and deep in debt, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career when he is tasked with reining in a guilt-ridden attorney (Tom Wilkinson) who has a nervous breakdown over a multibillion-dollar class-action lawsuit... With reliably brilliant support from Sydney Pollack and Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton is a darkly engrossing adult thriller that packs a killer punch.
