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Powerfully explores the struggles faced by those whom DNA testing has exonerated after years behind bars.
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Both riveting and disturbing.
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Jessica Sanders has observed a collection of lives dramatically altered by a flawed legal system.
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A powerfully affecting documentary.
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Calm, deliberate and devastating, Jessica Sanders's documentary After Innocence confirms many of the worst fears about weaknesses in the American criminal-justice system.
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The moral purity of After Innocence is so overwhelming that it simply leaves you with nothing to say or do. It's kind of beyond criticism.
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What emerges from these stories is a picture of the fallibility of the system and the vulnerability of innocent citizens, whom even scientific evidence cannot protect from incompetence, ego and prejudice, and of the courage of the exonerated victims to make meaning of their tragedies.
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One of the powerful things about After Innocence is that, no matter what your position on punitive justice, you can't argue with the film's position.
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There's also a little something smarmy about the interactions between the lawyers and their clients, all of whom are poor.
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In her clear and compelling film, Sanders lets the innocents do the talking.
