Just Mercy

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Just Mercy dramatizes a real-life injustice with solid performances, a steady directorial hand, and enough urgency to overcome a certain degree of earnest advocacy.

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Verified Ratings: 11,823

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Movie Info

After graduating from Harvard, Bryan Stevenson heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or those not afforded proper representation. One of his first cases is that of Walter McMillian, who is sentenced to die in 1987 for the murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite evidence proving his innocence. In the years that follow, Stevenson encounters racism and legal and political maneuverings as he tirelessly fights for McMillian's life.

Cast & Crew

Michael B. Jordan
Bryan Stevenson
Jamie Foxx
Walter McMillian
Brie Larson
Eva Ansley
Rob Morgan
Herbert Richardson
Tim Blake Nelson
Ralph Myers
Rafe Spall
Tommy Chapman
O'Shea Jackson Jr.
Anthony Ray Hinton
Karan Kendrick
Minnie McMillian
Drew Scheid
Linus
Steve Coulter
Judge Buren
Destin Daniel Cretton
Director
Destin Daniel Cretton
Screenwriter
Andrew Lanham
Screenwriter
Gil Netter
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Asher Goldstein
Producer
Michael B. Jordan
Producer
Bryan Stevenson
Executive Producer
Mike Drake
Executive Producer
Niija Kuykendall
Executive Producer
Gabriel Hammond
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Critic Reviews for Just Mercy

All Critics (291) | Top Critics (75) | Fresh (245) | Rotten (46)

  • It's competently made... Thought has been put into this production, and again, I'm completely a hundred percent on the side of everything it has to say. I just don't think it's a very good movie.

    March 19, 2020 | Rating: 6.5/10 | Full Review…

    Alonso Duralde

    Breakfast All Day

  • Just Mercy is a deeply moving film, a human story about injustice and justice and how intangible and ephemeral they both really are.

    February 28, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Wenlei Ma

    News.com.au

  • an earnest and important film about the still-festering sore of race in today's America - though when pitted against inveterate, sneering prejudice, its protagonist's one-note saintliness, however real, does not make for the most compelling drama

    February 6, 2020 | Full Review…

    Anton Bitel

    Sight and Sound

  • It's steady and clear-headed, safe in the knowledge that truth is the ultimate humaniser.

    January 30, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Clarisse Loughrey

    Independent (UK)

  • Just Mercy isn't interested in giving it a showy new spin. Instead the extraordinary, hope-inspiring true story is allowed to speak for itself, powered along by committed turns by Jordan and Brie Larson.

    January 29, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

    Metro (UK)

  • It's good acting at its finest in this preaching to the choir "right to life" drama that might have worked had the filmmakers chosen to show the audience a little mercy by not constantly talking down to them.

    January 29, 2020 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

    Scott Marks

    San Diego Reader
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  • Mar 26, 2020
    Good but felt too one-dimensional.
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