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By Candice Frederick (452) for TheWrap (3,203) on 23 Dec 2019

Clemency is a film that is just almost great…

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By Roxana Hadadi (336) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Dec 2019

Alfre Woodard captures with exquisite nuance the emotional and physical toll it might take on someone, spending years overseeing executions;…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Dec 2019

Chinonye Chukwu’s film is a morality play with a true sense of contradiction and melancholia…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 14 Dec 2019

In Woodard’s stillness is a singularly great performance from a career decorated with them…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 26 Sep 2019

There’s little room to breathe in writer-director Chinonye Chukwu’s constricting, devastating drama Clemency, an intentionally airless…

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By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 04 Feb 2019

Clemency is a thoroughly draining experience as if we’re placed in purgatory with no means of escape, but it’s ultimately powerful in the…

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By Norman Gidney (53) for Film Threat (5,156) on 04 Feb 2019

Clemency is a staggering achievement in its portrayal of a story that we often ignore out of simple spite or ignorance that humanizes all angles…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 01 Feb 2019

Chukwu maintains an impressive command over her material, but Woodard herself becomes the movie’s central storyteller…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Feb 2019

It's the humanity and compassion invested across all the principal characters that makes this contemplative examination of the terrible weight…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Feb 2019

It’s a sterling piece of American realism, powered by the transfixing spectacle of a great actor at the peak of her powers…

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By Amy Nicholson (961) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Feb 2019

If Woodard is hoping for her overdue second Oscar nomination after 1983’s “Cross Creek,” she’s got a decent shot with this excruciating…

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By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Feb 2019

Alfre Woodard may have graced us with the performance of her career…

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