'Just Mercy' review: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx fight for justice in true-life Death Row drama
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Jan 06, 2020
2 minutes
"Just Mercy" is solid, meat-and-potatoes docudrama filmmaking, if you don't mind a first-rate story of systemic injustice undercut by second-rate dialogue. No character can go two sentences without clarifying a legal point for the audience's benefit, or reiterating a tidy, just-so note of stirring idealism. By the time the movie arrives at its courtroom climax, however, there's an easy way to determine whether
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