On the Basis of Sex (2018)

ON THE BASIS OF SEX  (2018)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Mimi Leder
    Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux,
    Sam Waterston, Kathy Bates, Wendy Crewson
A dramatized account of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's early days as a wife, mother, law student, university professor and finally plaintiff's attorney in her first big gender-equality case. Felicity Jones plays the brilliant, forceful, unstoppable RBG. Armie Hammer plays her husband Marty, who lends a hand with the cooking (at which Ruth does not excel), while she helps him through law school when a cancer diagnosis threatens to derail his career. Sam Waterston plays the starched-collar dean of Harvard Law, and in the context of recent events, his resemblance to Robert Mueller is hard to ignore. If Ginsburg wasn't a real-life folk hero already, the movie's final shot should just about seal the deal.