Review: Felicity Jones is Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the polished but unenlightening 'On the Basis of Sex'
"On the Basis of Sex" begins in 1954, when a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) arrives for her first day at Harvard Law. She is one of nine women in an incoming class of 500, a disparity signaled by the sight of a blue dress in a sea of dark-toned suits. It's the kind of image that more or less sums up the picture that follows - polished, effective, a bit obvious - but it also tells its own concise story. Ginsburg doesn't fit in with this mostly male enclave, and she shouldn't; one day she'll surpass them all.
Directed by Mimi Leder ("Pay It Forward," "Deep Impact") from a script by Daniel Stiepleman (who happens to be Ginsburg's nephew), "On the Basis of Sex" is the second cinematic crowd-pleaser about its
