![]() For anyone who’s seen 2019’s Oscar-nominated “RBG,” a rousing and immensely entertaining documentary by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, there isn’t much that is especially enlightening or fresh offered by this attempt. ![]() Part of the misfortune surrounding “Ruth” and its filmmaker Mock (the director of the Oscar-winning 1994 doc “Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision”) is surely the film’s late-to-the-party timing. ![]() Sadly, it mostly plays like a safe infomercial, giving us repetitive soundbites and facts about a real-life hero that we are already deeply familiar with. “Ruth” consists of a collection of talking-head interviews, historical photographs and, mostly, extensive archival footage that aims to put the voice of Ginsburg front and center, to both electrify and educate the viewers about her strenuous career journey through the patriarchal ranks of the judiciary field in a prejudiced country. ![]()
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