‘…Vin Diesel is good value here as a wide-boy who deals with being ostracised by friends and family, but triumphs through his own sense of himself...Find Me Guilty shows there’s much more gas in this actor’s tank…’

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2024

A quality courtroom drama from the great director Sidney Lumet that features the shocker of shockers -- a good performance from Vin Diesel.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Nov 20, 2019

Find Me Guilty -- a guilty pleasure on this week's movie horizon.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2019

If watching a jury disregard mountains of damning evidence in favor of a charismatic gangster who calls himself a "gagster" seems a morally challenging proposition, well that's all part of the bargain in Lumet's topical drama.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 20, 2009

What on the surface seems like a regular court drama with a little humor thrown in for good measure actually works as a wicked satire on the American judicial system.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2007

Could not be more relevant at a repressive time in US history when the erosion and abuse of civil rights of those presumed guilty is nearly as big an issue as the plight of the innocent.

Full Review | May 4, 2007

Manages to crackle along in lively fits and starts of nasty profanity and very bad but all too credible behavior.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2007

Vin Diesel gives a perfect performance.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jan 12, 2007

Lumet orchestrates the machinations with the confidence of a master, but even he cannot quite manage to sustain the interest for the protracted arguments to run their course.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 22, 2006

...more reminiscent of a glorified Perry Mason episode than a return to form for the filmmaker.

Full Review | Jun 12, 2006

We could have done just as well to watch the proceedings on Court TV -- free, as it were, to flip channels or get up for a snack and skip the parts that disinterest us, rather than be held hostage by 125 minutes of drive-by clichés.

Full Review | May 3, 2006

as everyone knows, putting a self-serious egomaniacal movie star in a bad hairpiece is comedy gold.

Full Review | Apr 29, 2006

Find Me Guilty, like the justice system it portrays, ultimately works a great deal better than you might expect.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2006

The best way to enjoy Find Me Guilty is to view it as an indictment of the jury system.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 5, 2006

In Find Me Guilty, the teller counts at least as much as the tale. And, in director Sidney Lumet, Find Me Guilty, has a master storyteller spinning the yarn.

Full Review | Mar 31, 2006

An entertaining, true-life, comedy-drama saga of a nearly endless mob trial.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 31, 2006

While it delivers a few good laughs, the film is short on drama and suspense.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 31, 2006

If you didn't know you were watching Vin Diesel in Find Me Guilty, you wouldn't know you were watching Vin Diesel. And that's a compliment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 31, 2006

You won't feel uplifted, and you won't have any faith in the American justice system after watching its wheels grind to a halt, then start turning the wrong way. But you won't be bored.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 31, 2006