Synopsis
Inside the ACLU, five scrappy lawyers battle against the Trump administration’s historic assault on civil liberties - from separating families at the border, to rolling back transgender, reproductive, and voting rights.
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Cast
- Brigitte AmiriSelf
- David ColeSelf
- Lee GelerntSelf
- Dale HoSelf
- Brett KavanaughSelf
- Donald TrumpSelf
- Rachel MaddowSelf
- Jeffery RobinsonSelf
- Chase StrangioSelf
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IndieWire
What starts as a blandly divided documentary eventually finds its way to something inspiring, infuriating, and unbounded by old ideas. - 80
Empire
Wisely 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. - 75
Movie Nation
While 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. - 70
Variety
America 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. - 70
Film Threat
The Fight is a fantastic documentary highlighting the real heroes out there: the overworked attornies of the ACLU. - 67
The Playlist
The film is more of a curiosity, preaching to the already converted. - 67
The Film Stage
It 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. - 63
Slant Magazine
The film justly draws attention to the perpetual work that must go into preserving democratic institutions.