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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 85Paste MagazineWhitney FriedlanderPaste MagazineWhitney FriedlanderAfter one of the toughest years that many people will ever experience and with debates raging on about how much the pandemic has ruined any progress for women in the workplace, it’s still nice to spend roughly ninety minutes watching how a tiny woman from Brooklyn helped break down obstacles for us bit by bit.
- 80CNNBrian LowryCNNBrian Lowry"Ruth" admirably contextualizes Ginsburg's lingering legal influence, and how her writing in dissent during her 27 years as a justice often influenced subsequent opinions from lower courts.
- 67The A.V. ClubRoxana HadadiThe A.V. ClubRoxana HadadiFilmmaker Freida Lee Mock draws from photographs, video footage, and audio recordings of Ginsburg; collects interviews with mentees, colleagues, and fans; and utilizes animated sequences of courtroom proceedings to pad out this 89-minute documentary. That tactic means that the documentary is essentially stitched together by available archival material, and makes for an uneven balance.
- 60The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergThough filled with valuable details, the documentary has the misfortune of arriving after countless other appraisals.
- 58IndieWireKristen LopezIndieWireKristen LopezThere is a tendency to overly explain things as opposed to letting Ginsburg’s words flow, but if you’ve enjoyed the previous looks at the notorious RBG, this is a new one offers a different angle to her remarkable story.
- 40VarietyTomris LafflyVarietyTomris LafflyIt’s curiously difficult to stay engaged with Mock’s film that merely puts forth a paint-by-numbers assembly of the wealth of material it has at its disposal.