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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Film ThreatAlan NgFilm ThreatAlan NgIn Created Equal, Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia tell his life story using over 30 hours of interview time, personal photos, and archival news footage and does not shy away from the big moments of his life.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckDespite its obvious lack of objectivity, Clarence Thomas: In His Own Words proves an undeniably important historical document, if only for the rare opportunity it provides to hear from its subject directly. Unfortunately, the unintentional portrait it paints is hardly a flattering one, although obviously many will disagree.
- 50Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'Sullivan"Created Equal” doesn’t offer many insights, at least not in a deeply satisfying way, as to how and why he has changed.
- 50VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanCreated Equal is structured as a monologue of self-justification, a two-hour infomercial for the decency, the competence, and the conservative role-model aspirationalism of Clarence Thomas.
- If “Created Equal” is trying to promote the conservative cause, it does so gently, and blandly.
- 40Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinThe one-sided film’s wheels come off when covering Thomas’ fraught 1991 Senate confirmation hearings.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreFilmmaker Pack is a partisan hack and this is artless political agitprop.
- One wants to reach through the screen at the end of this narcissistic exercise, grasp his shoulders and give him a good shake: “Get a grip, man. You’re Clarence Thomas.”