Just Mercy (2019)


The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

Just Mercy (2019)

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Released Year: 2019
Runtime: 136 minutes
Genre: Drama, History
Directors: Destin Cretton

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The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

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Reviews


75
The Film Stage - Christopher Schobert
It is impossible to walk away from Just Mercy unmoved. ... Yet Destin Daniel Cretton’s third feature also feels a bit predictable, a bit obvious, and never quite as compelling as one might expect.
75
IndieWire - Eric Kohn
While the movie runs too long and the message grows thin, it’s a sturdy window into the corruption of the judicial process that can send an innocent black man to death row.
70
The Hollywood Reporter - John DeFore
A straightforward biopic ... The film's edge is somewhat dulled by respect for its subject, who's drawn here as more hero than man.
70
Screen Daily - Wendy Ide
Although conventional in its approach, the film is a forceful reckoning of a broken legal system.
70
TheWrap - Steve Pond
Cretton has made and will make subtler movies, but probably none that will prompt as many mid-screening rounds of applause.

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