RBG

Ruth Bader Ginsberg is an interesting topic for a documentary, no doubt. She's lived an amazing life, been part of major social changes in the US, and generally is an inspiration to many. However this doco is a little clunky in its effect - the decision to go from birth-to-now means that a more thematic approach that may have yielded more interest is kinda abandoned. There's interesting elements - not only reviews of some of her key cases but also her relationships both with her husband and with other judges on the Supreme Court, and the increasing memefication of her in recent years as she's become a symbol of resistance. But ... and perhaps this is something that's always going to happen when you're doing a biopic about a living famous person who's still doing the thing they're famous for ... it's a little bit of a hagiography, and it would have been nice to get a better glimpse at a few of the warts, just to make her a tad more human.