"West of Memphis"

This is a vote not only for a film, but for artists who joined in protest to save three men from prison one from Death Row after they were convicted in the 1993 slayings of three Cub Scouts. Inspired by "Paradise Lost,'' an earlier documentary about the case, Peter Jackson and wife Fran Walsh bankrolled their own investigation and produced this new film by Amy Berg that calls into question the case built by prosecutors. The story's enthralling, the climax triumphant.

AP Movie Writer David Germain.

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