On the Basis of Sex currently has an average rating of 7.6 out of 10 and has been rated by 424 users on our platform.
...a tidy, well-acted courtroom drama centered on the case that kicked off her decades-long career fighting against gender-based discrimination and for equal rights.
Read full review at The Austin ChronicleDirector Mimi Leder has an eye for telling detail and a sure sense of pacing...
Read full review at Roger Ebert...[a] forthright, likable biopic celebrating the early career of legendary lawyer and supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Read full review at The Guardian...[Jones] carries this picture, delivers thrilling arguments thrillingly and puts a warm, human face on a legal figure who has become liberalism’s Obi Wan Kenobi, “our only hope.”
Read full review at Movie Nation...director Mimi Leder, making a long-overdue return to the big screen, finds a way to make Ginsburg’s story engaging...
Read full review at EmpireIt’s impossible to overstate just how much Ginsburg has done to make life better for so many Americans, women in particular, and On the Basis of Sex is a touching, if slightly too Hollywood attempt to convey that.
Read full review at Entertainment Weekly...does a fine job capturing the early legal career of a feminist, legal, and cultural icon...
Read full review at Common Sense MediaOn The Basis Of Sex is ultimately less about one woman blazing a trail for herself and more about the slow, pointed deconstruction of an entire sexist social order.
Read full review at The A.V. ClubFor ikke-indviede i Ruth Bader Ginsburgs liv og virke fortæller ‘On the Basis of Sex’ dog en spændende historie om første del af hendes karriere og hendes første sag om kønsdiskriminering, der lagde grunden for hendes nutidige status...
Read full review at Soundvenue...berättelsen är så pass intressant, och paret Jones/Hammer så rara ihop, att man likt en domare i valfri rättegångsfilm vill muttra ”I’ll allow it”.
Read full review at AftonbladetDen drivna och effektivt berättade filmen lyfter inte bara fram en unik kvinna, utan visar att kvinnor faktiskt kan få allt – både karriär och familj – om man bara har ett jämställt förhållande.
Read full review at Dagens Nyheter...en charmig och respektfull skildring som står stadigt på egna ben.
Read full review at Nöjesguiden...pedagogiskt uppbyggt och syftar till att belysa de patriarkala strukturer som hela det dåvarande rättssystemet vilade på.
Read full review at Göteborgs-PostenEtt hjärtevärmande mänskligt och berörande rättegångsdrama
Read full review at MoviezineDenne spillefilm skærer kønsdiskrimination ud i pap, ligesom Ruth Bader Ginsburg gjorde det i 1972.
Read full review at Filmmagasinet Ekko