Juror #2

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “A great script and a great cast are key to Juror #2, a gripping moral study dressed up as a courtroom drama.”

  Liz Braun, Original-Cin · 100

• “A throwback character study that invokes the kind of mid-budget hits that kept the lights on at Warner Bros. for 50 years, Juror #2 both enriches our understanding of the Hollywood icon who made it and stands on its own as one of the best studio films released in 2024.”

  Christian Zilko, IndieWire · 91

• “Juror #2 stands out as the best late-career Eastwood film, from an era with its fair share of gems.”

  Caleb Hammond, The Film Stage · 91

• “Eastwood only gently tweaks the story’s conventional surfaces, yet he infuses it with a bundle of ideas and ideals that turn it both bitterly ironic and ferociously critical.”

  Richard Brody, The New Yorker · 90

• “Eastwood has explored systemic injustice before, including in “Changeling” and “Richard Jewell.” This is a stronger movie than those two by far, and if this one proves, as rumors have it, that it’s his last as a director, he is going out with a bang.”

  Manohla Dargis, The New York Times · 90