On the Basis of Sex

...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.

Director Mimi Leder has an eye for telling detail and a sure sense of pacing...

For 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...

...director Mimi Leder, making a long-overdue return to the big screen, finds a way to make Ginsburg’s story engaging...

...[a] forthright, likable biopic celebrating the early career of legendary lawyer and supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

...[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.”