Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)

Shlubby but brilliant lawyer who usually does research rather than actual client/courtroom interactions, is thrown for a loop when his boss suffers a heart attack and he must find his own way. His ideals, however, are at odds with how law actually works.

My question -- what was this guy supposed to be? Autistic? Anti-social? Obsessive-Compulsive? I couldn’t figure it out and neither could the movie. The movie itself suffered from time-travel-itis: although we're told the action takes place over the course of 3 weeks, there was enough happening for it to have been 3 years or, at the very least, months. Also, there was a slip-up where he said something about his former partner being in a vegetative state for “several weeks now” when -- according to the film’s timeline -- it would’ve been closer to a couple of days at that point.

No reason for this film to exist at all.

D+