Juror #2

A great example of Eastwood's efficiency as a filmmaker: lean, taut storytelling that doesn't waste a moment.

In keeping with his late-era films, Eastwood isn’t playing devil’s advocate, but rather a modern-day philosopher, daring to challenge where many look for affirmation. If this is indeed Clint’s last hurrah, it’d be as good as any to end on.

It’s a thorny, thoughtful film, and I wish its own studio had more confidence in it.

It sits at a perfect mid-point between a spry satire of America’s creaking legal system and an “old man yells at cloud” laundry list of civic grievances which plays like a right wing tabloid op-ed written in light.

If this is to be a swansong, it’s a fitting one: a thrillingly watchable legal thriller about truth, justice and (for better and for worse) the American way, as told by an all-American icon. 

Morally complex, smart fare that’s made for adults.

[A] contrived if provocative script is saved from a fatal case of implausibility by the tidy treatment Clint Eastwood brings to “Juror #2,”...ensuring that its critical observations about the American judicial system come across.

Juror #2‘s overall impact is hampered by Eastwood’s predictably lackadaisical approach to the material...

While “Juror #2” reminds us that everything is not always how it seems, it ultimately raises more questions than it answers, leaving us to ponder the complexities of justice and the power of individual conscience.

Juror #2 is the best Eastwood film in years. It’s a quiet character study that proves to be effective through some surprisingly thought-provoking dialogue and one excellent lead performance.