Julie Taymor, it says here on imdb.com, was born in 1952. This amazes me. I would have bet that the director of Broadway’s The Lion King and the film Titus was at least 10 years younger than that.

An air of apprehensive expectations pervades Tony Gilroy’s morose suspense melodrama, Michael Clayton. His film fairly leaches disappointment and creeping anxiety as its characters bend their outward efforts to damage control, and their inner resources to dampening a sense of desperation.