Juror #2
Warner Bros. | Release Date: November 1, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
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25
The PlaylistLena WilsonDec 6, 2024
While it’s nice to see Toni Colette and Chris Messina face off both in and out of the courtroom and Zoey Deutch gives a strong dramatic performance as Ally, even the best acting can’t make Juror #2 make sense. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreNov 18, 2024
Juror # 2 is competently cast, acted, shot and put together. But the script is melodramatic to the point of “hackneyed,” with a couple of unintentional laughs thrown in for good measure. Read full review
90
The New York TimesManohla DargisNov 14, 2024
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. Read full review
70
We Got This CoveredMarco Vito OddoNov 4, 2024
In "Juror #2," Clint Eastwood delivers his best directorial effort in years, crafting a morally complex courtroom drama that's elevated by Nicholas Hoult's compelling performance and a thought-provoking premise. Read full review
88
ObserverRex ReedNov 4, 2024
If Juror #2 does turn out to be Clint Eastwood’s final film, he’s gone out with fireworks. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Xan BrooksNov 4, 2024
Time is of the essence; Eastwood’s 94 years old. He’s not prepared to be cross-examined or sidetracked by pesky minor details. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleNov 1, 2024
Anchored by performances that refuse to tell us what to think (especially Hoult’s cagey calm), Juror #2 skillfully depicts how, in practice, the ideal of blind justice too easily becomes the shortsighted, look-the-other-way kind. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldNov 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. Read full review
80
The TelegraphTim RobeyNov 1, 2024
The moral maze of the premise is tautly negotiated. Shrewd casting helps, as does Eastwood’s trump suit: a forensic seriousness of purpose. Grappling with the mechanisms of justice and the workings of a lone conscience, he puts both in the scales, and no one’s off the hook. Read full review
70
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiNov 1, 2024
It’s an imperfect film that is intriguing until the end. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriNov 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. Juror No. 2 is a fine entry in a great director’s career. Read full review
80
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Radheyan SimonpillaiNov 1, 2024
Clint Eastwood is still making movies at 94. That’s amazing. What’s more shocking is that Juror #2 is not just pretty good but arguably the Unforgiven director’s most satisfying work in well over a decade. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsNov 1, 2024
It’s one of his good ones. Small, modest, a little stodgy. But good, and even a little brave in its courtroom-drama willingness to dunk the audience in the main character’s soup of anxiety almost immediately. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyNov 1, 2024
To all appearances, it’s a solid, unpretentious piece of work, but like some of Eastwood’s more ambitious classics, it centers its murky moral contradictions without contriving a way to resolve them. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireNov 1, 2024
In what may be his final film, nonagenarian auteur Clint Eastwood has crafted a solid, old-fashioned courtroom drama with “Juror #2.” Always known for his efficiency as a filmmaker, Eastwood brings that same brisk energy to this suspenseful piece of storytelling. Read full review
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Wall Street JournalKyle SmithNov 1, 2024
Jonathan Abrams’s script is so amateurish it feels like a first draft. Read full review
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The Daily BeastNick SchagerNov 1, 2024
Another of Eastwood’s inquiries into the nature of justice, the limits of the legal system to attain it, and the possible need, in that case, to take matters into one’s own hands. Read full review
75
ABC NewsPeter TraversNov 1, 2024
In what may be his final film, director Clint Eastwood, 94, overcomes a contrived script to build a tense, terrific legal thriller that indicts our broken justice system. Toni Collette and Nicholas Hoult help the master explore the gray area between heroism and villainy to stunning effect. Read full review
63
Washington PostTy BurrOct 31, 2024
Eastwood was never much of a cinematic stylist to begin with, and this film in particular has the dull, proficient sheen of a TV movie. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOct 31, 2024
Juror #2 is very much the work of an engaged, sensitive director — a series of tight, focused scenes informed by strong performances. There’s something classical about it, old-fashioned in the best way, like a 1974 Coupe de Ville or a 1962 Buick Electra. It’s a smooth, solid ride. Read full review
73
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerOct 31, 2024
Eastwood, still so earnestly attuned to the mechanics of personal guilt and faltering systems, finds timelessness in that growing unease. Read full review
100
Original-CinLiz BraunOct 31, 2024
A great script and a great cast are key to Juror #2, a gripping moral study dressed up as a courtroom drama. Read full review
90
The New YorkerRichard BrodyOct 31, 2024
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. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOct 31, 2024
There’s never a moment when the story lulls. Alas, it’s all just so … preposterous, due to that mistrial of a screenplay. Read full review
91
The Film StageCaleb HammondOct 31, 2024
Juror #2 stands out as the best late-career Eastwood film, from an era with its fair share of gems. Read full review
80
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsOct 30, 2024
It’s not so much a study of corruption as it is lethargy and the difficulty of feeling compassion towards someone who just looks like he makes mischief. Read full review
75
LooperDominic GriffinOct 30, 2024
Juror #2 is a meat and potatoes drama with a strong central premise, a great cast, and a runtime that doesn't overstay its welcome. It's exactly the kind of drama made for adults that has been jettisoned to television for the last 15 or so years. Read full review
60
The GuardianRyan GilbeyOct 30, 2024
Suspense is kept on a low flame but the film offers cosy pleasures, not least in the jury-room wrangles. Read full review
60
ColliderJeff EwingOct 30, 2024
It's considerably elevated by strong performances and some excellent directorial and cinematographic choices, but it ultimately is undone by details and narrative pivots that don't work. Read full review
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Slant MagazineGregory NussenOct 30, 2024
Juror #2 casts a morally inquiring side-eye at the American legal system, questioning whether it’s reasonable to convict anyone on the basis of something so fallible as memory. Read full review
60
Rolling StoneDavid FearOct 30, 2024
As for whether this is the last film Eastwood gets the opportunity to make, the jury is still out on that. But you can’t accuse him of resting on his laurels. Artists half his age couldn’t come up with a cinéma du airport read this intriguing. Read full review
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Time OutDan JolinOct 29, 2024
Sure, Juror #2 appears to be yet another polished, predictable courtroom drama; the kind we got a lot of during the ’90s. But thanks to Eastwood and first-time screenwriter Jonathan A Abrams, it’s a deeply involving and thought-provoking new spin on the genre, which serves up a ripe moral quandary that goes deeper than anything John Grisham ever managed. Read full review
80
EmpireJohn NugentOct 29, 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.  Read full review
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Screen DailyTim GriersonOct 28, 2024
The film builds to a conclusion that is unexpected but surprisingly effective in its understatement, suggesting that this veteran director can still find new ways to explore what everyday courage looks like. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzOct 28, 2024
Juror #2 isn’t quite forgettable, but it’s also not the movie we’ll remember Eastwood for. Read full review
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VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 28, 2024
As always, Eastwood respects our intelligence. And yet, Juror No. 2 registers as something of an anomaly in his oeuvre: It ranks among his quietest films, forgoing spectacle in favor of self-reflection. Read full review
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IndieWireChristian ZilkoOct 28, 2024
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. Read full review
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