'The Judge' movie review: Not even Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr. can …

Associated Press This photo released by Warner Bros. pictures shows, Robert Downey Jr., left, as Hank Palmer and Billy Bob Thornton, right, as Dwight Dickham in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village Roadshow Pictures' drama "The Judge," a Warner Bros.

David Dobkin previously directed broad comedies such as Wedding Crashers and The Change-Up, and now he's moved to broad drama with his latest feature, The Judge, a movie that clumsily grasps at every heartstring you 

Boil them down and you'll find each to be a big-studio picture with a familiar genre and an A-list movie star: Fox's "Gone Girl" is, in many ways, a date-movie thriller with Ben Affleck, the guy set to play the next big-screen Batman. And Warner Bros

Now here comes “The Judge,” an unabashedly adult drama and a steadfastly old-fashioned one. Robert Downey Jr. is jaded big-city defense attorney Hank Palmer, a specialist in getting unsavory white-collar clients off the 

Less than two weeks before the start of early voting, a federal judge ruled the state's photo voter ID law unconstitutional late Thursday and ordered state officials to drop the new requirements. “The Court holds that SB 14 creates an unconstitutional