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About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
21 September 1984, Palo Alto, California, USA
9 June 1973, Brooklyn, New York, USA
19 April 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 August 1970, San Rafael, California, USA
8 July 1982, Pasadena, California, USA
November 11, 2017
Offering a glimpse at Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall's life, Marshall offers thrills, mystery, and gripping storytelling.October 19, 2017
The tight focus helps make Marshall more courtroom drama than biopic.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.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.October 15, 2017
A distinct snapshot not only of the main character but of the setting that resulted in his becoming historically important.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?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.November 10, 2017
I highly recommend Marshall.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.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.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.