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J. Alphonse Nicholson has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Just Mercy.
2021
Comedy · Crime
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
Dir. Destin Daniel Cretton · With Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson, Jamie Foxx
A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy lurking directly beneath their neighborhood.
Dir. Juel Taylor · With John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris
Down deep in the Mississippi Delta, Trap music meets film noir in this kaleidoscopic story of a little-strip-club-that-could and the big characters who come through its doors—the hopeful, the lost, the broken, the ballers, the beautiful, and the damned.
Dir. Katori Hall · With Brandee Evans, Nicco Annan, Elarica Johnson
Seemingly opposite street hoopers, Jeremy, an injury prone former star, and Kamal, a has-been prodigy, team up to take one final shot at living out their dreams.
Dir. Calmatic · With Sinqua Walls, Jack Harlow, Lance Reddick
as John Robinson
Netflix · Included
An African American washerwoman rises from poverty to build a beauty empire and become the first female self-made millionaire.
With Octavia Spencer, Tiffany Haddish, Carmen Ejogo
