With a masterful sense of direction, 52 Tuesdays triumphs by turning the camera around to create a self-reflexive and unique film.

| Aug 7, 2023

Sophie Hyde's breathtaking feature debut 52 Tuesdays explores the boundaries of both cinema and gender identity in a seamless way.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 26, 2020

Well-drawn and well-acted, this microbudget Australian pic deserves to be seen by everyone. Genuine and realistic, this is empathetic without kowtowing to overwrought trans tragedy: Adelaide Buyers Club this ain't.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 4, 2019

This is precisely the kind of filmmaking that should be encouraged and while 52 Tuesdays is not entirely successful, it is compelling and exciting debut on several counts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 5, 2019

52 Tuesdays brought honesty to the screen.

| Jan 8, 2019

Hyde and her screenwriter Matthew Cormack tackle all this with persuasive confidence, conveying subtly, and with periodic comedy,

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 21, 2017

The desire to look - at others and at oneself - is taken for granted as a natural and healthy one in 52 Tuesdays.

| Oct 25, 2017

[Fifty-Two Tuesdays] is the rare Australian film that actually has something to say.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2017

It's an imperfect but remarkable little film, and it gives us the chance to see, in Cobham-Hervey, the birth of a star.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 16, 2016

Rough around the edges but sophisticated where it counts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2016

There are interesting moments throughout and the performances of the non-professional cast, particularly Cobham-Hervey, are very good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2015

There's a candid urgency to it, and an engaging, mercurial lead from Tilda Cobham-Hervey as Billie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2015

Compassionate Australian drama about a teenaged girl's sexual awakening that is complicated by her mother's transgender transition to manhood. A smart, adventurous film...

| Aug 7, 2015

What seems to be a queer issue film morphs into a rich thematic brew depicting how family, sexuality and time are all bound up in defining one another.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2015

A flawed yet fascinating Aussie indie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2015

Formally playful and thematically complex.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2015

One can't but fail to be impressed with the film's commitment to investigate its issues with subtlety and frankness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 6, 2015

Brings deft emotional nuance to the seemingly inexhaustibly complex relationship between individual identity and family ties.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2015

Sophie Hyde's debut narrative feature is an unusual take on the 'issue film', which impresses by favouring intimacy, whimsical humour and spiky, inconsistent emotions over preaching.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2015

Add it all up and you get an unconventional coming-of-age flick that creeps up on you, winning you over while slipping in all kinds of commentary on transgender life on the sly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2015