Films like Gun Hill Road with Latino leads are a rarity in independent gay cinema. The film further sets itself apart in that one of its leads is transgendered on screen as well as in real-life.

| Sep 15, 2019

... will give you goosebumps. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2018

Though the story follows a familiar trajectory, Gun Hill Road offers a lot of fresh insight into the day-to-day transgender experience.

| Dec 30, 2011

A film that might have an afterschool special feel, but compensates for it somewhat with mood and intensity.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 25, 2011

Gun Hill Road is shot through with performances at once intense and relaxed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2011

It's most powerful in its quiet moments that deal with the familial dynamics of a family torn apart by incarceration.

| Original Score: B | Sep 15, 2011

Feels like it's been workshopped, from its string of coincidences to its tidy downbeat conclusion in which Green stabs at irony with a dull knife.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2011

A moving and enlightening exploration of the conflicts between identity, desire, cultural expectations, and family ties.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 13, 2011

| Original Score: B- | Aug 24, 2011

Marked by an engaging and grounded turn from Harmony Santana, but lacking narrative originality, and seemingly constructed in moralizing fashion to pull dramatic levers and kick-start off-screen dialogues.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 17, 2011

Before some predictable, freedom-threatening recidivism on Enrique's part, the film exhibits a simultaneously anthropological and sensitive interest in Michael's day-to-day life...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2011

In writer-director Rashaad Ernesto Green's assured hands, "Gun Hill Road" manages somehow to be gritty, delicate, in your face and nuanced at the same time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 2011

Keep an eye on Green, as he knows how to write dialogue, gets the most out of his actors and makes a most promising debut.

| Aug 11, 2011

It's hokey at times - but it also knows how to move you on a personal level.

| Aug 5, 2011

Despite the characters and grittiness of milieu, the overall vibe is that of a soap operatic Afterschool Special.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 5, 2011

Tenderness and good intentions don't necessarily add up to a movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 5, 2011

A coiled feeling hangs over writer-director Rashaad Ernesto Green's assured, engrossing feature film debut.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2011

The writer and director, Rashaad Ernesto Green, relies too often on gender clichs...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 4, 2011

naked in its sincerity

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 4, 2011

Raw, disturbing and educational, 'Gun Hill Road' is sure to shake up what the average audience might think of someone who suffers from being born in the wrong body. This is the first must-see indie of the summer.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 4, 2011