There is a point in a woman's life — specifically, mine — when surprises in movies and in dates are just not all that welcome anymore. Which is why "The Judge" is a vehicle to like — very, very much. Robert Downey Jr. faces off with Robert Duvall in a patriarchal, angst-ridden mystery thriller set in small-town Indiana. There are rewards to be reaped from this story that takes you exactly where you think you're going, and arrives at the moment you think you'll get there. So what if there are no detours — much less, speed bumps — along the way? Granted there are no surprises, but it's pretty high on the comfort factor.