What’s lacking is style, not substance, as the movie bustles with diverting details.

Cristina Costantini gets some sly laughs, edged with appropriate anger, out of the sexist mindsets Ride deftly steered her career through in the 1970s and ’80s.

What makes the documentary so fascinating is its refusal to reduce Ride to a single narrative.

Most successfully, Sally doesn’t shy away from the intertwinement of Ride’s scientific life with her personal one, even if the former was so aggressively in the public eye, and the latter was the polar opposite.