Serving as a clarion call to raise awareness and celebrate excellence in sporting endeavour, Emmy nominated documentary Changing the Game is a powerful and compassionate film.

| Nov 27, 2024

A film both provocative and inspiring, its a terrific way to kick off pride month.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 13, 2022

While I've never been into sports, it's hard not to root for a sports doc which tells its stories with such sensitivity while embodying good sportmanship. Changing the Game is eager to play but wins or loses with passion, sensitivity, and class.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 26, 2021

Michael Barnett's Changing the Game, a moving documentary on three trans-teens competing in the sports arena, also incorporates a reaction or two to Trump, here though to his vilification of the non-cisgendered.

| Jun 23, 2021

Incisive about the complex issues involved and emotionally compelling, this documentary might help clarify the rules so the game can be changed.

| Jun 23, 2021

Changing the Game has a great set-up and with a stronger script that gets more into the heads of the characters, this would be an easy recommendation.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Jun 23, 2021

The documentary doesn't romanticize or even solely highlight the great aspects of queer lives. It does instead get real and personal with every trans youth it focuses on and how multifaceted and complicated trans lives can be.

| Jun 23, 2021

There's all-out bigotry, and there's all-out triumph. Changing the Game does well to offer both in a way that hits all the right notes.

| Jun 18, 2021

During this time...documentaries like Changing the Game are more important than ever.

| Jun 14, 2021

Timely, personally-themed and emotionally appealing documentary about three transgender teen athletes which smartly focuses on an empathetic point-of-view.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 11, 2021

This engrossing and timely documentary sends a powerful message of acceptance of transgender teens by letting them and their loved ones tell their own stories.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2021

"Changing the Game" goes beyond those dehumanizing headlines to show the real people affected by harmful anti-trans policies or lack of any meaningful legal protection.

| Original Score: B | Jun 5, 2021

This nuanced and engrossing documentary isn't one-sidedly "pro": It not only provides fleeting platform for nay-saying parents and observers...

| Jun 4, 2021

A charming and empathetic portrait of its young protagonists. We just might wish it explored some of the issues it raises in a little more depth.

| Original Score: B | Jun 4, 2021

Changing the Game is a winning documentary that emphasizes this critical need these teens feel to be included, not excluded.

| Jun 4, 2021

The sports doc finds plenty of beauty and excitement befitting its genre in its uphill battle, even if it sometimes tries to wrestle above its weight class.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jun 4, 2021

One thing is for certain, though - once you meet these three remarkable young people and see how they move through the world, you will never forget them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2021

It tries to get so many different perspectives in. It's so emotional, personal, and complicated, and there are no easy answers, but I appreciate that this film exists to at least inspire the conversation.

| Jun 3, 2021

What worked in this film is that even though it definitely had a point of view and an agenda, it also showed the ironies in the capricious ways some of these laws are enforced.

| Jun 3, 2021

The kids really come alive in scenes where we see them enjoying their sports, whether solo or in competition, practising, winning or losing.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 3, 2021