“Clemency” – For Anthony Woods (Aldis Hodge), his days in prison are lengthy and torturous. Each drab minute feels exactly like the next, because sitting in a 10-by-10 foot cell day after day, week after week, and month after month does nothing to spur joy or optimism. Time has become his sworn enemy, packaged as a double-edged sword, because the seemingly endless moments are also brutally finite. Anthony is on death row, and he unenviably stands next in line. Warden Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard) is enduring troubling days of her…
Woodard commands the screen with steely and hazy gazes on capital punishment in ‘Clemency’
