Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)

WHERE'S MY ROY COHN?  (2019)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Matt Tyrnauer
A documentary on Roy Cohn, the brilliant, ambitious, cutthroat lawyer whose scorched-earth tactics as a legal and political hatchet man left a slime trail from Joe McCarthy all the way to Donald Trump. If Cohn didn't write the demagogue's handbook, he at least codified it, and he comes across as a truly malignant human being, a compulsively vicious bully, a thug. He knew how to game the system, though, and a combative nature, combined with a transparent willingness to ruin anybody who stood in his way, allowed him to get away with it for years. A few too many scams and a tendency to rip off his own clients got him disbarred eventually, and he died of AIDS in 1986, denying to the end that he had AIDS.