The notorious American attorney and fixer gets his closeup in director Matt Tyrnauer's documentary.
“Where’s My Roy Cohn?” turns its gaze on a complicated but unambiguous monster. It offers a blunt, ruthless evisceration — which is to say, a clear-eyed assessment — of the brilliant legal mind who helped send the Rosenbergs to the electric chair and made his reputation as Joseph McCarthy’s attack dog.
“Where’s My Roy Cohn?” — words that President Trump himself uttered after what he perceived as an unforgivable betrayal by his then-attorney general, Jeff Sessions — is hardly the only recent documentary to double as a Trumpism origin story. And the notion that Cohn was the president’s enabler and kindred spirit is certainly persuasive, despite the somewhat glib, attention-grabbing emphasis it’s given here.
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