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Critics Consensus: Expansive in scope yet steady in focus, The Case Against 8 offers impassioned social advocacy as well as gripping viewing.
Critic Consensus: Expansive in scope yet steady in focus, The Case Against 8 offers impassioned social advocacy as well as gripping viewing.
All Critics (38) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (3)
The Case Against 8 remains a powerful advocacy film as well as one of historical record.
A slickly told tale that begs for movie-of-the-week treatment.
Directors Ben Cotner and Ryan White are dedicated to getting it all in, which occasionally impedes the flow of the story.
Even knowing the outcome, watching 8... is like watching a well-scripted legal thriller.
The film beautifully connects the procedural ennui of large-scale legal cases with the individual struggles of those directly involved.
A sprawling yet engrossing documentary about the five-year court battle to overturn California's ban on gay marriage, known as Proposition 8.
The narrative is dense, but understandably so, and not without its light moments. A richly informative investigation, it pulls viewers along on a political and legal thrill ride that will have you cheering the central couples on scene after scene.
While the film doesn't get very deep into these various court cases, it does a good job of humanizing the lawyers and the four defendants in the case. It is about real people, families and consequences.
What's most compelling about The Case Against 8 is that it is not a partisan procedural.
An accomplished and well-told piece of documentary journalism.
The Case Against 8 is a documentary on the Californian repeal of same-sex marriage laws and has the tension of a legal thriller as well as being surprisingly moving in its final scenes.
This may be a relatively straightforward documentary about a lengthy legal case, but it carries such a powerful emotional kick that it forces the audience to see the bigger picture.
One of the best executed documentaries on a court case that I have seen. Focusing the proceedings on the two political opposites who united behind a cause is fascinating stuff to watch.You could have taken a million angles to tell the story of this case but this one is uniquely special.
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