Michael B. Jordan plays a real-life death-row lawyer defending an accused killer in Alabama
Jordan pours his heart and soul into the role of the crusading attorney. And Foxx, deservedly nominated as Best Supporting Actor by the Screen Actors Guild, exudes ferocity and buried feeling as a man who is close to giving up hope. Here in Alabama, he tells Stevenson, “you’re guilty from the moment you’re born.” It fits McMillan’s words that the film’s soundtrack includes the slave song “No More Auction Block” and that black men were sold near the courthouse where his case is being tried.
does very little to gild the lily. Cretton plays by the rules of a strict, legal procedural, which sometimes flattens the drama inherent in the corruption of the judicial process. It’s the actors who make this real-life legal procedural come alive. They include Oscar winner, a Cretton regular, as Eva Ansley, a local advocate who allows Stevenson to use her home as the official center for his Initiative when the community closes its doors and issues threats to the safety of Ansley and her family.
And the film painstakingly recreates the obstacles Stevenson faces. They include corrupt district attorney Tommy Chapman and key witness Ralph Myers , the convicted felon whose testimony against McMillian was most likely coerced by police. The reliably fine Nelson brings traces of humanity to the role of a twisted bigot.
The heart of of the movie stays focused on McMillan and his family, with his wife presenting a picture of her husband as a flawed man who is nonetheless incapable of the crime for which he stands accused. Foxx’s nuanced, finely-calibrated acting allows us to see McMillan as a casualty of a system that tries to paint over the rot that’s festering inside. The court fight that ends the film — with Stevenson putting racism itself on trial — points to a small victory among many defeats.
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