Synopsis
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.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Michael B. JordanBryan Stevenson
- Brie LarsonEva Ansley
- Jamie FoxxWalter McMillian
- O'Shea Jackson Jr.Anthony Ray Hinton
- Rafe SpallTommy Champan
- Rob MorganHerbert Richardson
- Tim Blake NelsonRalph Myers
- Rhoda GriffisJudge Pamela Bachab
- J. Alphonse NicholsonHenry Davis
- Karan KendrickMinnie McMillian
Recommendations
- 75
The Film Stage
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
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
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
Although conventional in its approach, the film is a forceful reckoning of a broken legal system. - 70
TheWrap
Cretton has made and will make subtler movies, but probably none that will prompt as many mid-screening rounds of applause. - 70
Vanity Fair
It’s a rousing and moving enough film that one is compelled to excuse the limits of its artistry. - 60
The Guardian
Cretton ... can’t quite rise to the material or his performers, choosing anonymity over ferocity, making the dullest, safest decision at every turn. It’s not enough to topple the fascinating true story at his film’s centre but it does have a frustrating, flattening effect. - 60
Los Angeles Times
The movie is almost exactly what you’d expect: It has stirring speeches, infuriating setbacks and a tendency to overstate the obvious.
