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

| Jun 28, 2022

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

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

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

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

Each lost face in the documentary is a burning reminder of the human toll when our justice system succumbs to its imperfections.

| Feb 3, 2006

Sanders is more interested in specific human struggles than in larger political points, but she knows these men form a mosaic with a message that's unmistakable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2006

Deeply touching and overwhelmingly sad.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 20, 2006

Even-handed but quietly devastating.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 12, 2006

[A] rousing, quietly outraged documentary.

Full Review | Jan 12, 2006

Sanders' report from a new frontier in American jurisprudence is filled with the hopeful, haunted look of men who won't easily be forgotten.

Full Review | Jan 11, 2006

In her clear and compelling film, Sanders lets the innocents do the talking.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2005

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.

| Nov 3, 2005

Taylor does her cause no real favors by trotting out only the most articulate, most clearly railroaded exonerees.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2005

The film cuts away from such personal stories too quickly, eager to sell us on airy, unjustified claims.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 21, 2005

A powerful indictment of a judicial system too anxious to close cases, and then close ranks when someone tries to reopen them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 21, 2005

Calm, deliberate and devastating, Jessica Sanders's documentary confirms many of the worst fears about weaknesses in the American criminal-justice system.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2005

Both riveting and disturbing.

| Oct 18, 2005

After Innocence doesn't inspire much confidence in the American legal system.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 9, 2005