Most Death Row Movies Are White-Savior Flicks in Disguise — Not These

‘Just Mercy’ and ‘Clemency,’ both out this week, right some serious wrongs in the prison-drama genre

Beandrea July
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6 min readDec 24, 2019

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Photo: Still from ‘Just Mercy’

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Beandrea July
LEVEL
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