2007: Michael Clayton

Micheal Clayton, a man with a gambling problem, works for a law firm as the trouble shooter - he's the guy they send if you're a CEO and got caught shoplifting. His company works for a multinational that's under fire because its products, it seems, cause cancer. Things start to heat up during the four days covered by this film which, on the one hand, is just another bad big business flick, but on the other it produces an impressive athmosphere of coldness - mainly by means of cinematography (Robert Elswit) and music (James Newton Howard). In that sense you could say it's the 2004 Crash's little brother. (7.5)