Cohen’s pop sheen comes off as, at times, distasteful but, on the other hand, maybe it’s packaging and commodification that make a documentary that aims first to persuade achieve its goal.

| Oct 11, 2024

The film makes much of the importance of visibility, ensuring that the public understands and can see real intersex people in the media.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2024

Illustrated by personal photographs, documentary goes beyond an intimate portrait of growing-up difficulties faced by three people, and stresses their activism to stop binary surgeries and other medical and social interventions imposed on children.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 20, 2023

By shining a light on these wonderful people, the film will help shatter cruelly damaging myths.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2023

[A] moving and illuminating documentary...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2023

Heartbreaking as this story is, the picture’s peppy energy results in a film that is celebratory and defiantly upbeat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 17, 2023

[An] energetic and well-meaning documentary.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 15, 2023

At all events, this is a sympathetic and very contemporary study.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 12, 2023

Every Body’s existence is what matters at the end of the day, and hopefully it encourages the creation of more films like it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2023

Every Body resoundingly emphasizes the empowerment that comes with taking control of one’s own narrative, and the freedom and forgiveness that can blossom in a more fully self-actualized life.

| Aug 29, 2023

Director Julie Cohen interviews three intersex people – artist Sean Saifa Wall, political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel and actor and screenwriter River Gallo – about how they survived this and learned how to thrive.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 16, 2023

It's really insightful and enlightening.

| Jul 21, 2023

Joy. That’s what I felt while watching Every Body. Joy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 20, 2023

The educational value of this film alone makes it worth a trip.

| Jul 12, 2023

Cohen may make it look easy, but making a documentary this passionate in every frame is more difficult than it looks. “Every Body” is a testament to just how strong the conventional documentary format can be when it’s in the right hands.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 10, 2023

Julie Cohen’s “Every Body” is a master class in how a documentary should be done.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 7, 2023

Every Body makes some very important points and shines a light on a group of marginalized people, but it’s a piece of lazy filmmaking.

| Jul 3, 2023

Every Body is essential viewing to see how intersex people deserve the same human rights as anyone else. This notable documentary doesn't overload on talking head interviews. Instead, it focuses on three intersex people who share their compelling stories.

| Jul 1, 2023

Every Body is part education, part inspiration, and entirely worth seeking out. It’s difficult to hear these stories and not be moved, but once you get past the tears, there’s a clear path to making a change.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 1, 2023

This is one of the most important documentaries of the past few years.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 1, 2023