Sidney Lumet back in Serpico country -- corruption in the NYPD, with a cast of dozens upon dozens -- and (doing without a Tennessee Williams or a Paddy Chayefsky or a David Mamet) taking sole screenwriting credit himself: "You fuck with me, better you piss a kidney stone through your hard-on." The story is of a naive Assistant District Attorney whose first assignment is a "cut-and-dried" police shooting. And for sure it's cut-and-dried morally. The chief complication in it is the diversity of acting styles (special commendation to Fyvush Finkel as a mob lawyer with the manner of a Henny Youngman). And every now and then an evocative cityscape or flavorful locale creeps in. With Timothy Hutton, Nick Nolte, Armand Assante, Patrick O'Neal, and Lee Richardson. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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