The entire film offers a fascinating portrait of a deeply troubled woman ... [Norma] McCorvey may not have made it to Hollywood to become a glamorous movie star, but it's clear that she did get her wish to become a famous actress after all.

| Jul 19, 2020

AKA Jane Roe doesn't forget to center McCorvey throughout. The portrait that emerges is of someone who grappled with abuse throughout her life...

| Jun 23, 2020

Filmed over the last year of McCorvey's life, this "death bed confession" reminds viewers that the truth is rarely simple.

| Jun 22, 2020

[It] probably won't change minds on either side of the abortion issue, but as the case continues to be in danger of getting overturned, AKA Jane Roe's unflinching look at the complexities of the issue should resonate regardless.

| Original Score: B | Jun 22, 2020

McCorvey is, somehow, both Forrest Gump and all the famous people he meets and all the pain that never quite seems to register in him, all in one.

| Jun 9, 2020

As fascinating, as frustrating, and as full of life as she was. It's a moving, must-watch experience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 1, 2020

It's to Sweeney's credit that despite the sensational "news" broken by AKA Jane Roe, the overall effect of the movie is to make us less cynical about the woman once known as Jane Roe.

| Original Score: 87/100 | May 29, 2020

One of the most significant figures in the 20th Century is divisive, but it would have been great to narrow the focus to her feelings about that divisiveness and not the people who profited.

| Original Score: C- | May 27, 2020

It felt good to meet the real Norma McCorvey on-screen in AKA Jane Roe. She was funny, glamorous, queer, and -- ultimately -- honest about all those things.

| May 22, 2020

The country's failure to do right by McCorvey is similar to its failure to protect access to abortion; the documentary, however, remains too chickens--- to interrogate that relationship.

| May 22, 2020

AKA Jane Roe doesn't necessarily ask the viewer to like McCorvey; rather, the goal, mostly accomplished, is to present a clearer sense of the unlikely personality at the center of this polarized debate.

| May 22, 2020

If AKA Jane Roe is a fascinatingly humanizing tale of the life behind the lawsuit, it also suffers greatly from Sweeney's narrow focus on his subject's theatrical bent and "deathbed confession."

| May 22, 2020

What a story!

| May 22, 2020

AKA Jane Roe brings us into the battles behind the scenes, and allows us to get to know the woman at the center of it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 22, 2020

A fascinating look at an imperfect figurehead, a firebrand who played (and was played by) both sides of a volatile issue.

| May 21, 2020

The sadness of McCorvey's life, captured well by Sweeney, is that she was at the center of a fight for women's freedom, and yet was herself so unfree, buffeted by waves that she endured with unimaginable forbearance.

| May 20, 2020