Joker: Folie a Deux” and “Megalopolis” played on thousands of screens around the country while Clint Eastwood’s engrossing new film about justice, “Juror No.
2,” will only grace 50. The swell courtroom drama could very well be the 94-year-old “Million Dollar Baby” director’s swan song, though he hasn’t said as much.
And why should the gunslinger jump the gun? The man still knows how to make a damn good movie.How bizarre that most audiences will have to wait for the streaming debut to see Eastwood’s film.
But “Juror No. 2” and its vanishing ilk scare studios today: Morally complex, smart fare that’s made for adults. What should frighten Hollywood execs is comic book villains who sing showtunes, but I digress.Even during the movie’s sporadic moments of clunkiness, you’re always tense, you’re always thinking, you’re always filled with a realistic dread.
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