The film is confrontational, in large part because its subjects are unafraid of confrontation, and covertly capture footage of assembly lines, and even instances when they break up and speak out against [Amazon's] meetings.

| Jan 6, 2025

This pro-activist documentary (about the controversial formation of Amazon's first worker union) is a feel-good underdog story. However, the story is one-sided, has drab pacing, and doesn't tell enough about union members who aren't leader Chris Smalls.

| Dec 26, 2024

In a world of plutocracy, the working-class struggle is not a left or right issue. Smalls didn't care about whether he gets Biden's endorsement. I wish he or someone from his organizing committee would run for office in the near future.

| Nov 30, 2024

Directors Stephen Maing and Brett Story give a shrewd, fly-on-the-wall picture of the divisions within the union itself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2024

Cinema is used once again to bear witness to what working-class people are capable of…and the systemic structures suppressing them.

| Oct 28, 2024

“Union” lets us see what Amazon and the world would soon discover about the power workers have when they invest in their dignity first.

| Oct 25, 2024

It benefits by having a strong character in Chris Smalls.

| Oct 23, 2024

Union may be a vérité work, but it never lets us forget the humanity of everyone in front of and behind the camera.

| Oct 21, 2024

It would be a great line to end the documentary on, but Union doesn’t give us that satisfaction...the film ends on a sobering note...

| Oct 19, 2024

Brett Story (“The Hottest August”) and Stephen Maing (“Crime + Punishment”) got on the ground with the workers and the organizers; in their engrossing new film, “Union,” they show how the vote’s outcome was hardly assured.

| Oct 17, 2024

The film rightly celebrates a glimmer of hope in an era of all-encompassing darkness, but with a bit more insight, it might’ve pointed the way toward future victories.

| Oct 17, 2024

The film captures both the pain and the power of people at the base of a global infrastructure.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 2024

Rather dry without any thoroughness or fair and balanced perspectives. It fails to find the right balance between entertaining the audience and provoking them emotionally as well as intellectually.

| Oct 5, 2024

The film serves as a stark reminder that while victories for the American worker can still be achieved, the struggle is ongoing.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 3, 2024

The level of detail with which the filmmakers depict the unionization process is eye-opening.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2024

It would be easy to build a halo-lit documentary portrait around this handsome, rabble-rousing father of three, but Brett Story and Stephen Maing’s excellent “Union” is something more finely shaded and community-minded than that.

| Aug 22, 2024

The fight for the rights of the more than one million employees at Amazon has not been easy, as chronicled in the rightfully less-than-optimistic documentary Union.

| Original Score: B | Jul 26, 2024

"Union" offers a rare glimpse into grassroots democracy, which may be messy but is vital for our political system to survive.

| Jun 19, 2024

Although it depicts a small struggle to give some workers the dignity all deserve, it’s more compelling as a dystopian tale about how megacorporations are our modern-day empires, seeking to expand their purview and influence, no matter the human cost.

| Jun 13, 2024

Capturing the ascendancy of the working class, Union is a key addition to the canon of workers’ cinema.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 5, 2024