While Close to You is transparently imperfect, it is a sincere joy to have its gifted lead back on the big screen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

An introspective grey film that can’t get its pace up beyond a laboured stroll, Page might give a perfectly authentic performance, but his self-written script gives him very little to actually do.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2024

It takes the audience in close, to provide a tangible feeling of intimacy and connect us to the emotional perspective of everyone involved.

| Nov 18, 2024

Along with another fine performance by Elliot Page, the unscripted interplay amongst the family has an emotional authenticity that is not always matched by the personal relationship.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 29, 2024

Delicate and affecting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2024

When it's [about] the family and those crackling scenes of awkwardness, and you get Page's physicality telling you so much about who Sam is, I found it transfixing.

| Sep 16, 2024

There is an erratic quality to how much of it connects and flows.

| Sep 16, 2024

Director and star conceived the story and then the cast largely improvised the dialogue that drives it along. Sometimes that results in meandering or overblown moments, but the general thrust is powerful enough to carry it along.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2024

Page shines bright in an otherwise formulaic story, but this is still a thoughtful, sensitive portrait of a young man coming to terms with his sense of self and the love he deserves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2024

It’s clearly a passion project for Page, so why then does his performance feel so lifeless and inert?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 3, 2024

Page is wonderful, but the story around him feels underdeveloped and annoyingly unfocused.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2024

Small moments give the story an authenticity that other queer dramas often lack...Elliot Page is absolutely terrific in a very personal performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2024

Much of the film, set around the birthday of patriarch Jim (Peter Outerbridge), squanders the opportunity to investigate the fault lines of familial pain.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2024

It felt structurally unbalanced, but it never felt preachy.

| Aug 28, 2024

A film with good intentions about accepting those maligned over their gender change.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 27, 2024

Director Dominic Savage and the actors dispel any notion that these characters might fit an easily deduced type.

| Aug 20, 2024

As a film that gives a transgender man’s point of view, “Close To You” is a breakthrough that will speak to those in similar circumstances. One can only hope this will be seen as the start of the conversation not the culmination of it.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 19, 2024

Close to You offers an enduring and productive window into a terrifying return back to a place from the past that may be dangerous.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 19, 2024

Close to You has its flaws, but what it gets right opens up a world to us in a way that never feels exploitative or trite.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2024

Close to You is a well-intentioned movie that addresses some very important ideas, so it’s a shame that it isn’t a little better.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 17, 2024