12 angry men (lumet, 1957)

if the agents at ctu were 1/2 as clever in real time as those men i'd have much more faith in all facets of america. there is something unmistakably beautiful about a play being adapted for the screen (as opposed to being filmed for the screen)--who's afraid of virginia woolf, glengarry glen ross, death of a salesman, a streetcar named desire to name some of the best--and lumet pulled it off here as well as anyone, if not better than any before him or since. all twelve deliver performances that are among the best in cinema history. this is a real movie. a real freakin' movie.

stark list scale: 9/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/