‘Till’ Looks Like a Stirring Portrait of a Mother’s Quest for Justice—but Some Say They’ve Seen Enough

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A movie about Emmett Till looks like a heart-wrenching, empathetic dramatization of a real-life tragedy, but early critics are fed up with on-screen Black pain and suffering.

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