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‘Juror No. 2’ Review: Clint Eastwood’s Modest Moral Drama Gets Us Thinking Outside the (Jury) Box
Nicholas Hoult plays a man tapped to judge someone else for his own mistake in angry-man Clint Eastwood's unlikely yet intriguing courtroom drama.
The film may open on a note of idealism, but it quickly turns cynical as Hoult’s character, “perfect” husband and upstanding citizen Justin Kemp, who honors his jury summons, even though he’d rather be home with his pregnant wife Ally (Zoey Deutch). As soon as prosecuting attorney Faith Killebrew (Toni Collette) describes the murder — a clear-cut case of domestic violence in her opinion— Justin realizes that he was there at the roadside bar on the night in question. Once the trial wraps and deliberations begin, Eastwood seems to be counting on our having seen “12 Angry Men,” dangling the possibility that Justin could sway the rest of the jury to acquit — or else nudge them toward a guilty verdict, letting Kendall’s boyfriend, James Sythe (Gabriel Basso), take the fall.
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