RBG

— “RBG” should be required viewing for anyone who isn’t really sure how Ruth Bader Ginsburg changed America! It’s a compelling look at the life of a judicial giant who’s petite, soft-spoken, and brilliant. Now at 85, she's something of a “rock star,” seen as a little bit feisty thanks to her well-written dissenting opinions from a court grown more and more conservative. Of particular interest to me were her arguments before the Supreme Court as an attorney, successfully laying the groundwork for a shift in understanding gender discrimination. This is a woman who slowly and methodically worked, seemingly in the background from a layman’s point of view, toward equality. The film may be a bit of a love poem from a fan, but it’s still well worth seeing and I imagine even more so for a person too young to remember how far we’ve come in the course of Ginsburg's life.

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[2018. 98 min. Directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West.]
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/movies/rbg-review-documentary.html