100 Favorite Movies: 38

This movie has a lot of things that define what I love in a movie. For me, it's almost always about characters. Characters, characters, characters. That's what matters. Truly. Without good characters, it's hard to make a good movie. But I also always love the idea of a bottle movie of sorts, if that makes sense. For example, 12 Angry Men takes place almost entirely in the deliberation room and the dialogue moves the plot along. There's so much to savor in this movie. It. Is. Brilliant.

Courtroom drama directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Reginald Rose in 1957.

Starring: Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Jack Warden, Henry Fonda, Joseph Sweeney, Ed Begley, George Voskovec, and Robert Webber.

Tune in tomorrow for number thirty-seven!