2019 · drama · crime · history
Just Mercy
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton2h 17m2019
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.
Our read: Just Mercy (2019) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · crime · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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