Tag archives for Kiefer Sutherland

“Juror #2” (2024): Clint Eastwood’s Swan Song of Justice (Review)

★★★ “Flawed as it is…” No sermons, no lectures, and no statements; but in Juror #2, Clint Eastwood empathizes with the American system of justice.  Every time I saw something that otherwise would have annoyed me as a lawyer, I liked the film more for the personal ethics it applies to the political system. When […]

“The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” (2023): Post-Afghanistan Catharsis (Review)

★★★★ “The reprimand, if there is to be one, must come from your own conscience.” William Friedkin’s swan song is the year’s greatest film.  Cretins will dismiss its sentiments as mere boomer talk, but years from now it will endure for what it is – a mic drop from one of America’s greatest cinematic provocateurs […]

“A Few Good Men” (1992): No One Handled the Truth

In A Few Good Men, adversarial parties to a court martial prove themselves capable of confronting part of the truth, but never all of it. My childhood owes a lot to this film. No, I’m not one of those kids who watched it in the ’90s and then decided from that moment onward that my […]