The film's closing minutes offer some parting pieces of information that upend some previously laid assumptions, but it's a grafted-on coda rather than a well-choreographed gut punch.

If you want the whole truth, Courtney Hunt's new film is not so bad.

The script for The Whole Truth is an "airport book," although it contains even less sizzle and grit than most of those.

This courtroom mystery is more of a procedural puzzle than a realistic legal drama - indeed, one can imagine Agatha Christie coming up with the basic plot. It isn't exactly a nailbiter, but the story's twists are enjoyably engaging.