Review: 'Where's My Roy Cohn?' is a blunt, absorbing account of a master manipulator's life and crimes

There are documentary portraits that pay respectful tribute to their famous subjects, that measure their lives and accomplishments with varying degrees of admiration and ambivalence. And then there is "Where's My Roy Cohn?," which moves decidedly and unsurprisingly in the opposite direction. Its view of the notorious attorney and power broker Roy Cohn can be summed up in one interviewee's unminced words: "If you were in his presence, you knew you were in the presence of evil." After (or even before) seeing this absorbing, excoriating documentary, you may find it hard to disagree.

Unlike director Matt Tyrnauer's previous films, which include