If the 
story’s outcome is hardly a 
mystery — the landmark case was affirmed by a 5–4 margin in June 2015 — and the look of the film itself a little docu-drab, it’s also a shrewd and frequently moving testament to the true nature of change.

Leah Greenblatt

Entertainment Weekly

Rosenstein makes this a suspenseful legal yarn and an essential history lesson.

Daphne Howland

Village Voice

The Freedom to Marry is a movie that discourages complex thinking or contradiction, but there are little hints here and there of something more frightening and unstable.

Dan Callahan

TheWrap