My Review

As will all of my reviews I will not go into the plot

This is a must see movie as it shows one of the pivotal moments in the history of the United States. Felicity Jones plays Ruth Bader Ginsburg and shows her early career from law school to her first Court challenge.

The only problem that I had with the movie is how it dealt with the passage of time. The movie starts in 1959 and ends up in 1970 where she and her husband Martin, represented Charles Moritz, and took on Section 214 of the Internal Revenue Code which specifically limited the deduction to "a woman, a widower or divorce, or a husband whose wife is incapacitated or institutionalized".

Felicity Jones is one of my favorite actresses and she owns this film. The other stand out is Cailee Spaeny who plays Ruth's daughter Jane. The rest of the supporting cast gave fairly cookie cutter performances and this is one one of the things that prevented me from rating it higher.

Rating - B+

Cast

Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Armie Hammer as Martin D. Ginsburg
Justin Theroux as Mel Wulf
Kathy Bates as Dorothy Kenyon
Sam Waterston as Erwin Griswold
Cailee Spaeny as Jane Ginsburg
Callum Shoniker as James Steven Ginsburg
Jack Reynor as James H. Bozarth
Stephen Root as Professor Brown
Ronald Guttman as Professor Gerald Gunther
Chris Mulkey as Charles Moritz
Ruth Bader Ginsburg as herself

Movie Review Services

IMDb - 6/10
Rotten Tomatoes - 71%
Metacritic - 60%