A likable -- maybe even lovable -- movie.
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06/14/09
A Time to Kill (1996)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:33
Rotten:15
Average Rating:6.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 30 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: This adaptation of John Grisham's bestseller takes place in the small town of Canton, Mississippi, where two White rednecks kidnap, rape and savagely beat a young Black girl. The men are caught,... [More]
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Sandra Bullock
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Reviews for A Time to Kill
Top CriticWhat craven offal!
06/14/09
Top CriticA gritty, intense and engaging courtroom drama.
06/14/09
Top CriticOnly a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman could make things worse--and lo and behold, speak of the devil and Old Scratch appears.
04/01/09
Although it has its share of implausibilities, A Time To Kill is generally the most satisfying of the John Grisham screen adaptations to date.
10/08/08
Top CriticWith Joel Schumacher's tasteful but second-rate-Sidney-Lumet direction and Akiva Goldsman's nuts-and-bolts script, these boys have created a surprisingly stirring indictment of racism.
08/13/06
Justice may be blind, but rarely have courtroom dramas presumed quite so heavily on cultural myopia as this heinous version of John Grisham's first novel.
02/09/06
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04/09/05
Looks aren't enough. In the lead, McConaughey isn't there.
07/04/04
McConaughey nails with such laconic grace that some critics are comparing him to the young Paul Newman and to Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird.
06/23/04
No review available.
04/16/04
No review available.
04/07/04
The best Grisham to hit the screen yet.
01/02/04
No review available.
08/22/03
No review available.
08/21/03
No review available.
08/17/03
Dumbed down debate on the death penalty.
07/23/03
No review available.
06/26/03
If the film doesn't add up to a cogent legal argument, neither does it have trouble delivering 2 hours and 20 minutes' worth of sturdy, highly charged drama.
05/20/03
Top CriticInsight into black/white relations is superficial -- disappointing when you consider that the moral of the story is supposed to be how large a role race plays in the execution of justice.
05/14/03
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