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Jamie Foxx, Just Mercy

Foxx has been a diligent campaigner for this death-row drama, which opened well over Christmas and just made Barack Obama’s list of his top films of 2019. Critics have taken notice, too. A.O. Scott says the role of a wrongfully convicted inmate “provides a welcome reminder of how good [Foxx] can be; he conveys the man’s guardedness and his vulnerability, his kindness and his fury, with the smallest eye movements and vocal inflections.” In a season filled with multiple comedians making prestige comebacks, we may have one more.