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

| Nov 13, 2024

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.

| Nov 11, 2024

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

| Nov 9, 2024

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2024

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. 

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2024

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 5, 2024

Eastwood has explored systemic injustice before, including in “Changeling” and “Richard Jewell.” This is a stronger movie than those two by far...

| Nov 5, 2024

Eastwood’s sparely classical contribution to the genre is stripped of the slightest ounce of excess weight. The film demands close attention: gestures and facial expressions are charged.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2024

Grappling with the mechanisms of justice and the workings of a lone conscience, [Eastwood] puts both in the scales, and no one’s off the hook.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2024

Nicholas Hoult shines in a career-defining role, while Eastwood’s direction delivers relentless tension and moral complexity in a film that could mark a spectacular swan song.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 4, 2024

That Juror No. 2 manages to work so well as a movie of ideas without ever really breaking its stride (or a sweat) as a piece of entertainment is testament to Eastwood’s formidable populist instincts.

| Nov 4, 2024

If this is indeed Eastwood’s directorial swan song, and he hasn’t confirmed that it is, he can feel good about a job well done. He may be heading toward the century mark, but he’s still capable of making a movie worth watching.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 2, 2024

These elements carry the potential for a smart courtroom thriller with a cynical edge. But Jonathan Abrams’s script is so amateurish it feels like a first draft.

| Nov 2, 2024

So much of Juror #2 stretches believability. But that doesn’t take away from the case the movie makes about due process, its fallibility and those moral quagmires revolving around justice where Eastwood often finds himself at his cynical best.

| Nov 1, 2024

If this is indeed [Eastwood's] swan song as director, the 94-year-old legend ends his career behind the camera on a high note.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 1, 2024

Juror #2 is unassumingly involving, moving confidently and cleanly through what is basically a psychological story by focusing squarely on the characters.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 1, 2024

Anchored by performances that refuse to tell us what to think, “Juror #2” skillfully depicts how, in practice, the ideal of blind justice too easily becomes the shortsighted, look-the-other-way kind.

| Nov 1, 2024

Eastwood’s unhurried gaze allows the characters’ humanity to shine through. His style might be simpler, but his generosity as a filmmaker, his willingness to embrace the complex and the open-ended, has never been more evident.

| Nov 1, 2024

There’s nothing remotely fresh about “Juror #2,” but that’s what makes it fresh — it’s simply a story about neither heroes nor saints, but a group of people trying hard to do the right thing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 1, 2024

Apart from those mystifying decisions in the end, it’s a solid piece of courtroom entertainment.

| Nov 1, 2024