Marshall
About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
October 8, 1980 in Buffalo, New York, USA
6 July 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 July 1955, Berkeley, California, USA
8 July 1982, Pasadena, California, USA
October 27, 2017
A rousing courtroom drama about Thurgood Marshall as an ardent NAACP lawyer in a town convulsed by racial hatred of blacks.
October 25, 2017
What does Chadwick Boseman have to do to become a household name?
October 23, 2017
While slowly choking on the worthiness of its subject matter, Marshall putters along perfectly pleasantly, and messrs Gad and Boseman are a winning double act.
November 10, 2017
I highly recommend Marshall.
October 16, 2017
The problem with this hokey courtroom drama isn't that it says the right thing in the wrong way, the problem is that it ultimately doesn't say anything at all.
November 11, 2017
Offering a glimpse at Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall's life, Marshall offers thrills, mystery, and gripping storytelling.
October 15, 2017
A distinct snapshot not only of the main character but of the setting that resulted in his becoming historically important.
October 19, 2017
In ignoring the lived reality of colorism, Marshall creates a circumscribed version of blackness that's easy for white audiences to consume, lacks any sort of challenging narrative, and bypasses the more fascinating wrinkles in its characters' lives.
November 08, 2017
Marshall's brilliant legacy gets the short shrift in favor of a meat-and-potatoes courtroom mystery, albeit a satisfyingly twisty one.
October 19, 2017
The tight focus helps make Marshall more courtroom drama than biopic.
October 13, 2017
Boseman has headlined biopics before as James Brown and Jackie Robinson, and here, he imbues the young Marshall with a quiet confidence and a dogged devotion to truth and justice.
October 19, 2017
This real-life case makes for an entertaining courtroom drama that nonetheless reduces Marshall to the level of Perry Mason and consigns to the end credits his greater triumphs.
