Juror #2

In what may be his final film as a director, the 94-year-old legend still surprises us with a deeply involving and thought-provoking new spin on the courtroom thriller genre. This deceptively small-scale film, revolving around a juror in a murder trial who comes to suspect himself as the killer, reveals itself as a stern parable of morality and conscience – themes that have defined his work for half a century. Playing out like a morally inverted 12 Angry Men , this fascinatingly fraught tension-ratcheter exhibits a stony contempt for the vagaries of the American judicial system, transforming the verdict into an open-ended finale that silently knocks on legal and moral reckoning.

4/10 (Sun): Seminar with Sam Ho and Fung Ka-ming