The narrative switches between past and present, re-creation to reality, somewhat akin to Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce’s 2019 doc “Framing John Delorean” (2019), with Joynt being more on target and effective with the structure.

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

Having seen all the Trans 101 required material, I went into Framing Agnes expecting honesty, emotions and a dash of trauma. Still, nothing prepared me for what happened in the ensuing 75 mins.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 20, 2023

Expanding his 2018 short, filmmaker Chase Joynt deconstructs drama, documentary and pastiche in a way that's riveting and entertaining.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 24, 2023

… a fascinating, insightful and timely documentary.

| Original Score: 17.5/20 | Jan 31, 2023

A fascinating, multidimensional, mosaic-like glimpse at transgender life from the 1950s to today as interpreted by — and through — a group of transmasculine and transfeminine performers and creatives and one uniquely impressive academic.

| Dec 15, 2022

It is a blending of performance and documentary. All elements have been done to lend a realistic feel to the film. The Story of Agnes is presented as a mixture of talk show, which is filmed in black and white, along with a straight-up documentary style.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2022

It helps that each of the performers seems deeply invested in their character and that the vintage segments are executed with meticulous skill and attention to detail.

| Dec 12, 2022

The result is a multifaceted examination of trans issues from two different eras.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 9, 2022

Trans actors recreate historic trans figures like Christine Jorgenson ..compelling interviews with historian Jules Gill-Peterson, who wrote Histories of the Transgender Child..who says it's easier today to be seen, which is emancipation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2022

Even though it doesn’t entirely work in a formal sense, the conversations being had and stories being shared throughout Framing Agnes are truthful and moving.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 7, 2022

With only Garfinkel’s archives to go on, Drucker is able to give a sly, necessarily mysterious air to Agnes’s life. And, yes: the format is quite fun to watch, too.

| Dec 7, 2022

A shallow missed opportunity to shed light on the trans experience in America, overly artificial and too satisfied with its meager achievements to even attempt to achieve anything more.

| Dec 6, 2022

Framing Agnes is not a film about ultimates. It doesn’t pretend to have answers to all the insightful questions it poses; instead it just brims with the thrill of discovery. If Agnes was, how many others were? How many more will be?

| Original Score: B | Dec 5, 2022

One of the most underwhelming, clunkily-edited and shallow documentaries of the year

| Dec 2, 2022

Essential viewing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2022

Joynt’s scope as a researcher is admirably broad, but what his film lacks is a sense of purpose as a work of cinema.

| Dec 1, 2022

For such a studiously artificial work... it is profoundly moving.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2022

It’s a smart and inventive method of storytelling that nods to the reality that, until very recently, most trans people in pop culture have been relegated to trashy daytime 온라인카지노추천, where they’ve tended to be cruelly depicted as aberrations.

| Jul 25, 2022

It is a challenging film that expects its audience to sit up with their brains fully activated the entire time; for those watching who are tuned into its wavelength, the intellectual rewards are plenty.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 11, 2022

This supremely self-conscious approach does provide considerable food for thought, even if our desire to know more about trans life six decades ago remains frustrated.

| Jun 28, 2022