Fracture

Fracture is a 2007 crime film starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. I don't remember knowing this movie even existed, so maybe I slept through 2007, but it's fascinating. I stayed involved in this all the way through. Wikipedia begins its plot description with this:

Theodore "Ted" Crawford (Anthony Hopkins), a wealthy and talented Irish aeronautical engineer in Los Angeles, discovers that his wife Jennifer (Embeth Davidtz) is having an affair with police detective Robert Nunally (Billy Burke). After confronting his wife, Crawford shoots her, seriously wounding her, and immediately confesses the crime to Nunally at the scene.

Much of the rest of the film is courtroom drama, with Hopkins' character serving as his own defense lawyer.

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Slant Magazine concludes by calling it a "prototypically sleek and silly Hollywood thriller". Rolling Stone gives it 3 out of 4 stars and calls it "a beautifully intricate cat-and-mouse game". Empire Online gives it 3 out of 5 stars, calling it "a lively paced tussle that favours both Hopkins’ ice-cool demeanour and Gosling’s pithy confidence and wit". The Christian Science Monitor calls it "a cracking thriller". DVD Talk says it "plays all of its cards too early and lumbers along to an unsatisfying conclusion" but that "Hopkins and Gosling turn in strong performances here". EW says,

It's just good enough to be called Hitchcockian — which means, of course, that the movie is really all about the questions, those pesky little unsolved mysteries that spank each scene along because they're keys to the personalities on display.

Rotten Tomatoes has a 72% critics score.