The State of Texas vs. Melissa
NR
6
2021
1 hr 42 min
Documentary
Melissa Lucio was the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death in Texas. For ten years she has been awaiting her fate, and now faces her last appeal.
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This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
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Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
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As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
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It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
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