Guilty As Sin (1993)

You can tell how good a lawyer Rebecca De Mornay's Jennifer Haines is by the way she swaggers around a courtroom and drapes herself in the desk chairs of sleek 90s-minimalist law offices, but a new client played by Don Johnson is a real ladykiller - she thinks literally so - and knows just how to crack Jennifer's cocky lawyer facade, so soon she is making the worst decisions of her legal career, in Sidney Lumet's charmless but perfectly watchable legal thriller marketed disingenuously as erotic.

★★★☆☆

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Basic Instinct (1992)

If you can get past the fact the sweaty suited detectives are all males indistinguishable from each other and the women are all deviants whose perverse sexual desires the men must sigh and resignedly sate, then this is for most of its runtime a solid thriller with Michael Douglas doing a good job playing Michael Douglas playing a detective, and Sharon Stone channelling Vertigo's Kim Novak to play the cop's prime murder suspect-with-benefits, a mystery novelist whose bed-partners end up dead by ice-pick.

★★★☆☆

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