The Fight

Name: The Fight
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 31, 2020
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 73

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date (Streaming): July 31, 2020 | PG-13

Summary: At this defining moment in American history, The Fight follows a scrappy team of heroic ACLU lawyers in an electrifying battle over abortion rights, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights and voting rights.

Director: Eli B. Despres and Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 96 min

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Thomas Alexander

Aug 4, 2020

A documentary of tremendous urgency and compassion, The Fight is essential viewing for anybody who wants to understand the present political moment. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

Jul 29, 2020

In this engrossing and ultimately inspiring examination of ideals in action, the team behind The Fight wind up illustrating a cardinal rule of nonfiction filmmaking: When it comes to humanizing even the loftiest principles, a documentary lives or dies by its principals. Read full review

Jake Coyle

Jul 30, 2020

What most vividly comes across in The Fight is the never-ending nature of freedom and democracy. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jul 27, 2020

While lawyers read, in one montage, from their mountains of hate mail, there’s not a lot of balance to the film, aside from snippets of Fox News opinionators praising this or that Trump extra-legal executive fiat. Read full review

Lorry Kikta

Jun 25, 2020

The Fight is a fantastic documentary highlighting the real heroes out there: the overworked attornies of the ACLU. Read full review

Roxana Hadadi

Jul 29, 2020

Snappily edited, with a visual style reminiscent of Steven Soderbergh’s modular design, The Fight tells viewers of a certain political perspective what they want to hear (that Trump is bad). Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Jul 29, 2020

It’s a well-made film in many ways but also frustratingly skin-deep for a news junkie like me. Read full review

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