It’s a fascinating and enraging film and a timely reminder of the courage of members of the feminist vanguard.

The final third of the documentary slows to a deflated sigh, however, as Newnham struggles to make it a fitting conclusion to the high-stakes drama that preceded it.

A melancholy tale about a true iconoclast.

[There] are more high-profile women who enjoyed personal-reclamation documentaries that reframed the ruthless misogyny they suffered... Hite doesn’t have the name recognition, but she certainly deserves a sympathetic documentary like this, too.