Just Mercy was reviewed out of the Toronto International Film Festival. The film is slated for limited release on December 25, 2019 and will go wide on January 10, 2020.
When defense attorney Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) first meets Walter “Johnny D” McMillian (Jamie Foxx), wrongfully convicted for capital murder, a wave of skepticism hits the room. After lamenting about the lawyers that have came and went in his life with no real solution, McMillian leans in, looks Stevenson directly in his eye and asks “what you gonna go different?”
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12, Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Just Mercy explores that difference between other lawyers in Alabama and Stevenson’s decades-long commitment to justice and fighting Death Row laws. And where the film lacks in unpredictability, it gains in passionate performances.
Source: IGN.com Just Mercy Review