Marshall
Reception

Marshall (2017)

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7.3
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 33,511 votes
7.1/10 3,500 votes Synced 2026-08-02
7.3/10 29,239 votes Synced 2026-08-20
Audience 6.7/10 72 votes Synced 2026-07-22
Critics 6.6/10 Synced 2026-07-22
Audience 8.4/10 Synced 2026-07-22
Critics 8.0/10 Synced 2026-07-22
7.2/10 700 votes Synced 2026-08-28

External reviews

Calvin Wilson · St. Louis Post-Dispatch 88.00/100.00

One of the freshest and most entertaining films of the year.

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Michael Phillips · Chicago Tribune 75.00/100.00

A workmanlike but vividly acted courtroom drama.

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Roger Moore · Movie Nation 75.00/100.00

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.

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Moira Macdonald · The Seattle Times 88.00/100.00

Marshall is a handsome, old-fashioned film about a real-life hero, with a message of equality and justice that always bears repeating.

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Richard Brody · The New Yorker 80.00/100.00

Reginald Hudlin directs this historical drama, set in 1941, with an apt blend of vigor and empathy.

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Peter Keough · Boston Globe 75.00/100.00

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.

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Matt Zoller Seitz · RogerEbert.com 88.00/100.00

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.

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Alan Zilberman · Washington Post 75.00/100.00

Director Reginald Hudlin handles the story with just enough finesse to make its details more thrilling than uneasy.

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Mick LaSalle · San Francisco Chronicle 75.00/100.00

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.

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Peter Debruge · Variety 80.00/100.00

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.

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