Directed by Mimi Leder
Written by Daniel Stiepleman
Starring: Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, and Justin Theroux
Running time: 2 hours
MPAA rating: PG-13 for some language and suggestive content

by Deborah Krieger

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is everywhere these days, as she should be. The “Notorious RBG” memes and Kate McKinnon impersonations on Saturday Night Live serve as catchy pop-culture testaments to her importance as one of the more progressive members of the United States Supreme Court in an era where civil rights are being eroded away. She breaks a rib and half the country holds its breath; we want to cocoon her in bubble wrap to keep her and her passionate sense of justice on the bench for as long as humanly possible. Hyperbolically (and likely quasi-sincerely), we offer her our organs, our limbs, our beating hearts. Facebook keeps encouraging me to buy earrings shaped like her famous lacy “dissent” collar. In the absence of a sense of common decency in the other branches of federal government, a nation turns its eyes to the second female Justice appointed to the Supreme Court to supply us with the food for the soul a stirring dissent or witty, spot-on remark can provide.