This real-life case makes for an entertaining courtroom drama that nonetheless reduces Marshall to the level of Perry Mason and consigns to the end credits his greater triumphs arguing Brown vs. Board of Education and other landmark civil rights cases.

Marshall isn't so different from a well-made TV movie. But it plays well on the big screen anyway...

The film does have the desired effects on the less demanding parts of the brain. And Marshall's story is one worth hearing.

The film’s dramatized character study allows you to still absorb the complete measure of the man as if you were watching a masterful symphony.