In a world where the goal for films is often purely to entertain, director Destin Daniel Cretton is pushing audiences a step further: He asks them to make the world a better place. For “Just Mercy,” ...

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Perhaps the best way to understand Scott Budnick’s unconventional path is to picture it as a Venn diagram, with one circle marked “Hollywood,” a second labeled “criminal justice reform”—and the new ...

The Maltz Museum will present “Just Mercy,” a film about Bryan Stevenson’s fight to free Walter McMillian, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death for a crime ...

Just Mercy (2019) is an American biographical legal drama film. Bryan Stevenson traveled to Alabama in 1989 to help poor people get justice from the court. Here's how you can watch and stream Just ...

“Just Mercy,” a film about a Southern black man who was exonerated after spending years on death row, tells a truly powerful story, painting the man's painful journey to freedom thanks to the help of ...

Michael B. Jordan plays a real-life superhero in his new film, Just Mercy. Bryan Stevenson, whom the actor portrays, is a lawyer who for the past 31 years has worked tirelessly toward freeing ...

Destin Daniel Cretton attends the Just Mercy premiere during the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images As he warily handed over my food, he quietly asked, “Are you okay ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Just Mercy was released on Friday in theaters across the country, ...

Bryan Stevenson, an attorney whose exceptional work is dramatized in “Just Mercy,” does not take the easy way out in his professional life, and this film tribute to him and what he’s accomplished also ...

One movie’s protagonist fights the power; the other wields it. One shows the potential to change the system; the other, the perils in preserving it. Despite differences in approach and tone, the two ...