Best Corporate Conspiracy
While the first season set the tone, the second season deepens the mystery and raises the stakes exponentially. Viewers who loved the initial premise will find the expanded lore, increased corporate paranoia, and more complex ethical dilemmas incredibly rewarding. It builds upon the foundation of th...
Michael Clayton is a 2007 legal thriller film written and directed by Tony Gilroy, starring George Clooney as a 'fixer' at a prestigious New York law firm. The film follows Clayton as he deals with a crisis involving a senior litigator (Tom Wilkinson) who suffers a breakdown while defending a contro...
Why this score?
Highly acclaimed legal thriller with seven Oscar nominations, intelligent writing, restrained direction, and uniformly strong performances; deliberately sober rather than groundbreaking.
Scoring methodology
The Appeal is a 2008 legal thriller by John Grisham about a corporation attempting to influence an election for the Mississippi Supreme Court. Its objective is to place a sympathetic justice on the court so that the judge can help overturn a large pollution judgment, linking corporate power, campaig...
