Prime Video has just added one of the best movies of 2023 so far

Released in cinemas earlier this year, the drama holds a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Co-written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu (who made the also acclaimed drama Clemency), the film is based on the true story of Mamie Till-Bradley (Danielle Deadwyler - The Harder They Fall, Watchmen), an educator and activist who pursued justice after the murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett (Jalyn Hall - Space Jam: A New Legacy) in Mississippi in 1955.

Also featuring amongst its cast Frankie Faison (The Silence of the Lambs), Haley Bennett (Cyrano), Jayme Lawson (How to Blow Up a Pipeline), Kevin Carroll (The Leftovers) and Whoopi Goldberg (The Color Purple), Till was released in the States last year and in Ireland in January 2023.

The movie currently holds a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes score and was named one of the best films of 2022 by the National Board of Review in the US.

In particular, critics singled out Chukwu's handling of the important subject matter and Deadwyler's performance for praise, with many referring to the actress' lack of an Oscar nomination for her work in the drama as a snub.

Jalyn Hall as Emmett Till

You can read a handful of reviews for Till below:

ABC News: "Danielle Deadwyler gives the breakout performance of the year as a Black activist mother who used the 1955 lynching of her son Emmett Till to galvanize the civil-rights movement. Chinonye Chukwu crafts this emotional powerhouse into essential viewing."

AV Club: "Chukwu has shown a great knack for collaboration with actors and drawing marvelous performances out of them (see Alfre Woodard and Aldis Hodge’s staggering work in Clemency). She evidences it again with Deadwyler in Till."

CNN: "Anchored by Danielle Deadwyler’s towering performance, it’s a wrenching portrayal of reluctant heroism under the most horrific of parental circumstances."

Empire: "An absorbing, slow-burning study of a broken woman’s politicisation. [Mamie Till-Bradley] is superbly served by star Danielle Deadwyler, who transforms Till from a good film into a gripping one."

Rolling Stone: "An impassioned melodrama on the surface, unafraid of facing tragedy head-on and allowing ample space for grief, anger, and fear, but which is also a wise movie about the complicatedly political world Mamie Till finds herself in."

Till is now streaming on Prime Video in Ireland and the UK. You can watch a trailer for the film right here:

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