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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandWhat starts as a blandly divided documentary eventually finds its way to something inspiring, infuriating, and unbounded by old ideas.
- 80EmpireDavid HughesEmpireDavid HughesWisely focusing on four key cases, The Fight is a worthy attempt to document the ACLU’s seemingly endless struggle to challenge the many constitutional violations of the Trump administration.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreWhile 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.
- 70VarietyAmy NicholsonVarietyAmy NicholsonAmerica is so punch-drunk that The Fight often feels like it’s whacking old bruises. But that is the national psyche’s problem more than the filmmakers’. For their part, they have made a worthwhile record of the civil rights advocates combating the country’s backslide into stripping away rights for voters, immigrants, pregnant women and the LGBTQ community.
- 70Film ThreatLorry KiktaFilm ThreatLorry KiktaThe Fight is a fantastic documentary highlighting the real heroes out there: the overworked attornies of the ACLU.
- 67The PlaylistThe PlaylistThe film is more of a curiosity, preaching to the already converted.
- 67The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakIt takes us beyond the nuts and bolts we all heard while watching these battles unfold via the twenty-four news cycle and into the nuanced day-to-day struggles of the men and women working around the clock to curtail federal government overreach. This is the story of unrelenting, heroic lawyers.
- 63Slant MagazinePat BrownSlant MagazinePat BrownThe film justly draws attention to the perpetual work that must go into preserving democratic institutions.
- 60It’s both interesting and sometimes a little dull, which seems to be by design.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterBeandrea JulyThe Hollywood ReporterBeandrea JulySteinberg, Kriegman and Despres get the balance right between the legal heroes and their collaborators, the marginalized groups they are fighting to protect.