Denzel Washington’s Latest Movie and Hollywood’s Quest to Score the Faith Audience

Roman J. Israel, Esq. is set in the underbelly of the overburdened Los Angeles criminal court system.

Denzel Washington stars as a driven, idealistic defense attorney whose life is upended when his mentor, a civil rights icon, dies. When he is recruited to join a firm led by one of the legendary man’s former students – the ambitious lawyer George Pierce …