Union
Level Ground Productions | Release Date: October 18, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
80
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreOct 21, 2024
Union is a rare thing — a documentary that is undeniably political in its focus while being artful and observational in its approach. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleOct 25, 2024
Sober and heartfelt, Union lets us see what Amazon and the world would soon discover about the power workers have when they invest in their dignity first. Read full review
83
The Film StageEdward FrumkinJan 27, 2024
The filmmakers do not dive into the protagonists’ lives or elucidate if any form of progress was made after the wins. Maing and Story show that the outcome is the beginning of a generational fight for companies to properly value the labor that keeps them running. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 13, 2024
Directors Stephen Maing and Brett Story give a shrewd, fly-on-the-wall picture of the divisions within the union itself, with the working-class members and people of colour uneasy with the white college-grad contingent who are very gung-ho about protesting and getting arrested, not quite realising that for black people this is to risk death. Read full review
80
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergOct 17, 2024
Union is as interested in intra-union disputes as it is in the fight writ large. But the external obstacles are clear as well. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergJan 27, 2024
It’s a documentary about the fight, one that takes the necessity of the fight as a given. That’s amply inspiring Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comIsaac Feldberg Oct 7, 2024
The film captures both the pain and the power of people at the base of a global infrastructure. By not departing from the frontlines of the fight against Amazon’s labor exploitation, Story and Maing bring the true face of their struggle into focus. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaOct 2, 2024
The level of detail with which the filmmakers depict the unionization process is eye-opening. Read full review
75
The PlaylistWarren CantrellJan 27, 2024
Content to tell just one story despite a far more interesting one just under the surface, Maing and Story’s honesty and remove from the filmmaking process has produced an unvarnished, raw document that offers up a slice of history: warts and all. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJan 27, 2024
Union is all the more effective because it doesn’t see the need to argue its case. Instead, the film is free to focus its attention on how difficult and inspiring it was and remains for the Amazon Labor Union to press that case into action — and even just to exist in the first place. Read full review
70
Screen DailyWendy IdeJan 27, 2024
Union is a solid work about an important subject. Yet, while the observational approach gives the picture an urgency and immediacy, it’s a film that might have benefitted from the addition of more contextual background information about Amazon’s labour practices. Read full review
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