Synopsis
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
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Cast
- Chadwick BosemanThurgood Marshall
- Josh GadSam Friedman
- Kate HudsonEleanor Strubing
- Sterling K. BrownJoseph Spell
- James CromwellThe Judge
- Dan StevensLorin Willis
- Sophia BushJennifer
- Jussie SmollettLangston Hughes
- Marina SquerciatiStella Friedman
- Keesha SharpBuster Marshall
Recommendations
- 88
RogerEbert.com
It pays attention to issues of racial, religious and gender discrimination without wavering from its main objective: giving us an entertaining film about a couple of guys who are in way over their heads. - 88
The Seattle Times
Marshall is a handsome, old-fashioned film about a real-life hero, with a message of equality and justice that always bears repeating. - 80
Variety
By approaching Marshall as an idealistic young trial lawyer, the film stands on its own as a compelling courtroom drama, complete with surprising revelations — and while we hope things will go his way, this case could just as easily prove the one that motivated his future crusade. - 80
The New Yorker
Reginald Hudlin directs this historical drama, set in 1941, with an apt blend of vigor and empathy. - 75
Movie Nation
Marshall makes for an entertaining take on history and Boseman’s winning performance a playful spin on an icon the passing decades have chiseled in stone as a Great Man and one of the giants of American legal history. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
As played by Boseman and Gad, Marshall and Friedman are a complementary pair, like something you’d see in a buddy movie — one fit and one fat, one black and one white, one tall and one short, one calm and one stressed, but both Americans working together in a just cause. - 75
Boston Globe
More problematic for Hudlin is the nature of the case — only by proving that a rape victim is a liar can Friedman and Marshall win an acquittal for their client. Fortunately, the case (in the film, if not in real life) is resolved in such a way that racism and misogyny are found equally guilty. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Marshall is a solid, straightforward courtroom drama with proud liberal credentials, one that could have been made by Norman Jewison around 1967.
