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

“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

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

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 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

There are just too many assumptions being asked of the audience here without presenting enough facts to validate this struggle. And that missed opportunity is truly unfortunate.

| Feb 27, 2024

A ballsy, grassroots doc that chronicles a ballsy, grassroots group of Davids ready to slay a Goliath.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 8, 2024

... It's a charged tale of workers' rights at a key time in the American workforce.

| Feb 5, 2024

“Union” can be a little frustrating in its narrow scope, but it’s still worth a look.

| Feb 1, 2024

In part because of the empire-sized dauntingness of the ALU’s opposition, “Union” perseveres as a vital and urgent portrait of labor organizing and its enduring possibility at a time when the fight for workers’ rights has never seemed more one-sided.

| Original Score: B | Jan 23, 2024

Union adds a new chapter to a documentary lineage that includes Harlan County USA (1976), about striking coal miners in Kentucky. You won’t see gun-toting thugs beating up workers here, but you will witness the grind of union work...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 23, 2024

While the observational approach gives the picture an urgency and immediacy, it’s a film that might have benefitted from the addition of more contextual background information about Amazon’s labour practices.

| Jan 22, 2024

It’s a nuanced portrait of the challenges of leadership and a revealing celebration of the values of persistence, solidarity and free weed.

| Jan 22, 2024