This may be a talky court drama, competent rather than inspired, but the fact that it is based on truth lends its argument force.

A very stately, bland piece of work, perhaps best shown to high school history classes.

Makes you pause and consider, not the fragility of justice and human rights in extreme circumstances, but the fusty and enfeebled condition to which Robert Redford's filmmaking has sunk.

A motion picture with the stuffy manner of historical reenactment, though it recalls a devastating incident in US history that has since been forgotten by the general public.