The Short List of Things to Do
A guide to what you should see and what you should skip — and what you won't be able to avoid
Michael Clayton
Clayton (George Clooney) is a "fixer" at a big law firm; he has the wiles to get clients out of embarrassing scrapes. Now, trying to clean up a mess in a class action, he needs his own fixer: somebody wants to kill him. Writer-director Tony Gilroy slickly blends the paranoid-thriller genre with the study of a smooth operator backed into an emotional crisis. And Clooney is terrific as a smart, stricken hero.
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