Sanders shows that America's criminal justice system may be more criminal than just.

| Jun 28, 2022

The subject matter and content is so moving and thought-provoking that it hardly matters if the movie is a technical achievement.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 25, 2020

Powerful docu on post-prison lives of falsely accused.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2017

An advertorial rather than a solid piece of investigative journalism.

| Mar 1, 2007

Documentary shines a scientific spotlight on the criminal justice system's dirty little secret via ten tragic cases of mistaken identity, each an unfortunate rush to judgment.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 5, 2007

Both sorrowful and uplifting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2006

A rough but engrossing sketch of what freedom feels like, and what it costs, for seven men who've endured that national nightmare.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2006

The scope of the problem, with likely thousands of innocent people incarcerated thanks mostly to errant eyewitness testimony, should give pause to anyone who thinks that life is as simple as black and white, innocent and guilty.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 7, 2006

After Innocence is a crusading documentary driven by DNA testing that's brought freedom for men who served years in prison for crimes they didn't commit.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 24, 2006

Eye-opening.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Mar 16, 2006

You'll probably like it and wish it were better.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 9, 2006

Despite its flaws After Innocence raises staggering questions about virtually every aspect of the criminal-justice system.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 4, 2006

This is no-frills filmmaking and may be a little talky, but it's also very well-made, powerful stuff, and it should be seen by anyone who has questions about the American justice system.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 3, 2006

After Innocence is, without making it overly obvious, anti-death penalty on the grounds that a just society cannot afford to make any mistakes that we cannot attempt to rectify.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2006

[The] stories of injustice and perseverence [will] stick in the memory after watching this uncluttered and compelling film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2006

...terrific agitprop journalism/analysis...

Full Review | Feb 27, 2006

Sanders has an important message, unfortunately diluted by unimaginative shooting and insufficient editing.

| Feb 11, 2006

Informative (we learn, for example, that exonerees are generally given no follow-up assistance upon release, as parolees are) and deeply moving.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 10, 2006

Not a special pleader but is fairly special, because Sanders gives it the pressure of straight moral conviction.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 10, 2006

The embittered men make fascinating subjects. Although innocent, they have been deeply scarred by their prison years.

| Original Score: B | Feb 9, 2006