Movies

The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early career and the landmark tax case that launched her legal fight for gender equality. A stirring portrait of a woman who spent her lifetime strategically dismantling the laws that kept women unequal.

An intimate documentary portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg — her life, her marriage, her legal career, her fitness regimen at 85, and her unlikely cultural icon status. A joyful, moving celebration of a woman who never stopped fighting.

Renée Zellweger won the Oscar playing Judy Garland in her final months of performances in London. A heartbreaking portrait of a woman destroyed by the entertainment industry’s exploitation, yet clinging with ferocious dignity to her gift.

Emma Thompson plays a late-night talk show host who has become complacent and discovers her show is at risk. A sharp, funny film about a woman in her 60s reckoning with her failures and choosing growth over comfort.

Meryl Streep plays Katharine Graham, the Washington Post publisher who decides to defy the Nixon administration and publish the Pentagon Papers. A stirring portrait of a woman in her 50s who discovers her courage and grows into her power.

Keira Knightley plays Colette, the French novelist whose husband publishes her work under his own name. A portrait of a woman’s fight to claim her own creative identity, and her journey to sexual and professional self-determination.

Tom Hanks plays Fred Rogers in a film about an Esquire journalist assigned to profile him, who is slowly changed by the encounter. A quiet meditation on kindness, anger, grief, and the courage to be emotionally vulnerable — relevant for women working through difficult family relationships.

Robin Wright directs and stars as a woman who retreats to a remote Wyoming cabin after a devastating loss. A quiet, gorgeous film about grief, solitude, and the slow work of finding the will to live again.