By considering his innocence and not his personality, "Conviction" puts the focus where it belongs: on the sister who reshaped her entire life to win his freedom. A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through. Sam Rockwell, Hilary Swank and Melissa Leo in a well-intentioned, earnest A far more interesting movie could have been made about Taylor: Leo's presence in the film is all too.
Conviction movie review. by Joel Amos. The movie happens to be a legal drama. Pamela Gray developed the movie s.
Conviction is way too routine, not fleshed out enough and rather uninspired. I'd recommend it for a watch just for the performances alone but that's it. Conviction: movie review. ( R ) ( Monitor Movie Guide ). Strong performances by Hilary Swank, Minnie Driver, and Sam Rockwell make 'Conviction' worth seeing. Like so many movies based on true stories, Conviction is a matter of selection and compromise. If that shockingly unclever play on words already has your eyes rolling, then you'd best avoid this lumpy, based-on-a-true-story slab of uplift.
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Local ne'er-do-well, Kenny Conviction is based on the true story of Betty Anne Waters' two-decade battle to right the travesty of. Conviction is way too routine, not fleshed out enough and rather uninspired. I'd recommend it for a watch just for the performances alone but that's it.
Screen Rant's Sandy Schaefer Reviews Conviction. Films that belong to the "based on an incredible true story" genre ironically tend to be among the more formulaic and conventional movies out there. Strangely though Tony Goldwyn's Conviction doesn't have that effect. It is sincere, sentimental and filled with Despite good intentions and moving moments it could almost be a television movie.