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'Just Mercy' is a powerful legal drama — movie review

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Karl Delossantos
Dec 12, 2019
∙ Paid

Just Mercy follows the true story of a civil rights attorney as he tries to prove the innocence of a man on death row

One-sentence review: Just Mercy may hit a lot of the familiar beats of a based on a true story legal drama, but the performances by Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, and Rob Morgan more than make up for its flaws.

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