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      • With Just Mercy drawing from an emotional true story and featuring a talented cast, there was some thought going in that it could be a viable Oscar contender for Warner Bros. That ultimately didn't pan out, but the film is still a rewarding experience worth checking out.
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  2. Dec 23, 2019 · Richardson’s arc is the one truly successful element of “Just Mercy,” and Morgan’s excellent, heartbreaking performance is being unfairly overshadowed by Foxx’s this awards season. A Vietnam vet with severe PTSD, Richardson caused the death of a young girl when a bomb he planted on her porch exploded.

  3. Parents need to know that Just Mercy is a fact-based courtroom drama that tackles the subjects of racism and the death penalty. It centers on idealistic young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan), who travels to Alabama to help save a wrongfully convicted man on Death Row (Jamie Foxx).

    • Destin Daniel Cretton
    • Jeffrey M. Anderson
    • Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson
  4. Dec 23, 2019 · By Kenneth Turan. Dec. 23, 2019 10:51 AM PT. Bryan Stevenson, an attorney whose exceptional work is dramatized in “Just Mercy,” does not take the easy way out in his professional life, and this...

  5. Dec 24, 2019 · Just Mercy” is saved from being an earnest, inert courtroom drama when it spends time on death row, where it is opened up and given depth by two strong, subtle performances, from Foxx and Rob...

    • Destin Daniel Cretton
    • 3 min
  6. Dec 26, 2019 · What this movie really does well is bring the straightforward politics of a Mockingbird-esque crusading legal drama into our modern dialogue around mass incarceration and the death penalty. And...

  7. But though the narrative and acting is great and often very memorable, the length is too long and the plot predictable and not as compelling as I had initially thought. But the message it's telling justifies the flaws, overall, Just Mercy is an amazing movie that needs to be seen at least once.

  8. Jan 10, 2020 · Just Mercy Is a Stark True Story of Good and Evil. The biopic draws power from its faithful retelling of a man’s wrongful conviction, but risks seeming more like a news summary than a...

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