AKA Jane Roe
  • Network: FX
  • Series Premiere Date: May 22, 2020
Metascore
63

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5

Critic Reviews

  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Inkoo Kang
    May 21, 2020
    50
    AKA Jane Roe is both a must-see film as well as a deeply frustrating one. ... But if AKA Jane Roe is a fascinatingly humanizing tale of the life behind the lawsuit, it also suffers greatly from Sweeney's narrow focus on his subject's theatrical bent and "deathbed confession."
  2. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Kristen Lopez
    Oct 23, 2020
    42
    “AKA Jane Roe” starts with a fascinating story but fails to go deep into the mind of a woman who was constantly changing. One of the most significant figures in the 20th Century is divisive, but it would have been great to narrow the focus to her feelings about that divisiveness and not the people who profited.

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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 3
  3. Negative: 1 out of 3
  1. Pdfortune
    May 23, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. She is one ugly ultra white trash woman, and that has nothing to do with the abortion debate. I recorded it, and it was about 5 minutes of episode and 4 minute of commercials in the first hour; which killed the flow, and that is a big part of my bad rating. It was interesting that she never got an abortion.… Full Review »
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