Aka the mysterious case of the cracking Clint Eastwood courtroom drama that its own studio tried to dump. Recalling the prestige legal dramas of the ’90s, this engagingly smart story is Clint’s best film in years – and shame on Warner Bros. for not recognising that sooner. It casts an excellent Nicholas Hoult as a juror who, at the start of a murder case, realises that he is the culprit… Leading to a taut, 12 Angry Men-ish thriller in which guilt itself is the prime antagonist.
