82
Metascore
4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91IndieWireChristian BlauveltIndieWireChristian BlauveltThe result is an extremely multi-dimensional portrait of a First Lady, one who, you can’t help but think, was the most significant at that point since Eleanor Roosevelt in her accomplishments and her influence on policy.
- 90The New York TimesLisa KennedyThe New York TimesLisa KennedyMany of the archival images Porter so fluidly employs will be familiar, but they gain fresh energy and timely urgency from Johnson’s absorbing narration and her often stirring observations about Lyndon Johnson, their political partnership, the environment and the two events she so presciently knew would shape us for decades to come: the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War.
- 70Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonWall Street JournalJohn AndersonThe audio recordings left by the first lady were clearly intended for posterity, and as such are discreet and politic but always revelatory, even by omission: LBJ’s legendary philandering, for instance, is never mentioned.