09-20-2020, 04:11 PM
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
If you dislike formulaic biopics, then keep well clear of this Ruth Bader Ginsburg movie but if like me you love legal dramas, then there's just enough to hold your attention. The daughter felt more like an "on the nose" surrogate for millennial viewers and a clunky plot device to motivate Felicity Jones' RBG, rather than an actual character. Armie Hammer's infectious charm is always welcome and Kathy Bates steals the movie with her two scenes. I thought it focused too much on RBG's family life and struggles as a woman in a "man's world" (and didn't do either particularly well) to the detriment of portraying her much more interesting legal battles in sufficient detail, which in a better written film could've been used to illustrate the two former issues. Those problems are similar to the ones in 2019's Marie Curie biopic 'Radioactive'. If you're going to make bipocs about trailblazing women, you should probably get women to write them.
If you dislike formulaic biopics, then keep well clear of this Ruth Bader Ginsburg movie but if like me you love legal dramas, then there's just enough to hold your attention. The daughter felt more like an "on the nose" surrogate for millennial viewers and a clunky plot device to motivate Felicity Jones' RBG, rather than an actual character. Armie Hammer's infectious charm is always welcome and Kathy Bates steals the movie with her two scenes. I thought it focused too much on RBG's family life and struggles as a woman in a "man's world" (and didn't do either particularly well) to the detriment of portraying her much more interesting legal battles in sufficient detail, which in a better written film could've been used to illustrate the two former issues. Those problems are similar to the ones in 2019's Marie Curie biopic 'Radioactive'. If you're going to make bipocs about trailblazing women, you should probably get women to write them.
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