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

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

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

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

[A] richly heady, thoughtful documentary [that] is constantly welcoming us in by reflecting on itself.

| Feb 1, 2022

Framing Agnes is a film of quiet but decisive radicality that builds its own genesis and production into it.

| Jan 29, 2022

Unfortunately, Framing Agnes gets too wrapped up in the questions surrounding storytelling to do any actual storytelling.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 28, 2022

It's a rewarding and informative hybrid film, which takes an academic gender studies foundation as a launchpad to explore the lived experiences of trans people then and now.

| Jan 23, 2022

It's about the truths we share and the truths we will never know.

| Jan 23, 2022

The combination of past and present makes Framing Agnes far richer and more thought-provoking than it would have been had it focused on only one or the other.

| Jan 23, 2022