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Clemency mines serious social issues for gripping drama, brought to life by an outstanding cast led by Alfre Woodard.
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I hate the amateur quarterbacking I'm about to engage in, but that [Woodard's] performance did not merit an Academy Award nomination is damning. Jan 17, 2020 | Full Review…
I hate the amateur quarterbacking I'm about to engage in, but that [Woodard's] performance did not merit an Academy Award nomination is damning.
Rumaan Alam
While admittedly spartan in its stylistic approach, Clemency is wrenching in its performances and direction. Jan 16, 2020 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
While admittedly spartan in its stylistic approach, Clemency is wrenching in its performances and direction.
Chandler Levack
"Clemency" isn't exactly a good time at the movies, but it's definitely an enlightening one. Jan 16, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
"Clemency" isn't exactly a good time at the movies, but it's definitely an enlightening one.
Bill Goodykoontz
Much of "Clemency" is told through the facial expressions of Woodard, an actor of the highest calibre who knows the most powerful stories are often the ones that need the fewest words to tell. Jan 16, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Much of "Clemency" is told through the facial expressions of Woodard, an actor of the highest calibre who knows the most powerful stories are often the ones that need the fewest words to tell.
Peter Howell
The title of "Clemency" refers to the mercy extended to a prisoner, but it's the wisdom of this grave and sorrowful drama to spread the meaning to everyone in its view. Jan 15, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
The title of "Clemency" refers to the mercy extended to a prisoner, but it's the wisdom of this grave and sorrowful drama to spread the meaning to everyone in its view.
Ty Burr
Woodard's performance as a woman at the point of cracking is the reason to see this film. Jan 8, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Woodard's performance as a woman at the point of cracking is the reason to see this film.
Michael O'Sullivan
Woodard is deft at not only humanizing Bernadine but in depicting how the barbaric process she's in charge of is slowly eating at the soul she didn't know she had. Jan 19, 2020 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Woodard is deft at not only humanizing Bernadine but in depicting how the barbaric process she's in charge of is slowly eating at the soul she didn't know she had.
Al Alexander
Clemency has moments of shivering gravity. Almost all of them involve complex emotions registered in Woodard's extraordinary face, her dignified resistance to a turmoil of emotions within her, and her agonized need for forgiveness. Jan 18, 2020 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Clemency has moments of shivering gravity. Almost all of them involve complex emotions registered in Woodard's extraordinary face, her dignified resistance to a turmoil of emotions within her, and her agonized need for forgiveness.
Liam Lacey
Woodard steps into a thorny, introspective role and commands a standout, Oscar-worthy performance that was not quite recognized by the Academy in a crowded year for actresses. Jan 17, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Woodard steps into a thorny, introspective role and commands a standout, Oscar-worthy performance that was not quite recognized by the Academy in a crowded year for actresses.
Jeff Mitchell
Woodard is phenomenal! Jan 17, 2020 | Full Review…
Woodard is phenomenal!
Anne Brodie
The final moments of Clemency are undoubtedly the finest of Woodard's career. Jan 16, 2020 | Full Review…
The final moments of Clemency are undoubtedly the finest of Woodard's career.
Pat Mullen
The filmmaker's commitment to utter seriousness is admirable, if ultimately stultifying. What sticks are the day-to-day penitentiary scenes, which show the truly deadening effects of a place where mortality is front and centre at every moment. Jan 16, 2020 | Full Review…
The filmmaker's commitment to utter seriousness is admirable, if ultimately stultifying. What sticks are the day-to-day penitentiary scenes, which show the truly deadening effects of a place where mortality is front and centre at every moment.
Ken Eisner
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