On the Basis of Sex
Directed by Mimi Leder
A movie like this doesn’t do our divided country much good, said Peter Canellos in Politico.com. A dramatization of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early career, it’s “a myth-building exercise” for a woman who’s already reached mythic stature, and because it gives Ginsburg total credit for a breakthrough 1972 court victory for gender equality, it misses a chance to celebrate how that era differed from ours. The young Ginsburg won, after all, because as the case advanced, she encountered reasonable male Republican judges who were willing to listen to her arguments. You might learn some legal history from