In Hedwig, transition is less about gender and more about how these myriad identities are all part of a whole.

| Apr 5, 2024

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the film's wide release and to me its importance has only deepened.

| Sep 10, 2021

It's a lovable film with plenty of personality, humour, and heart.

| Mar 29, 2021

A deeply rich, incredibly authentic musical.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 10, 2020

Mitchell's performance and Stephen Trask's incredibly touching tracks allow for delirious cinematic spectacle. Mitchell's Hedwig... remains one of cinema's most heartbroken and heartbreaking cinematic chanteuses.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2020

The film hums with the plasticine kineticism of Terry Gilliam as the camera tilts and moves with all the abandon of one of Hedwig's shows.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 9, 2020

of the greatest modern musicals

| Jul 18, 2019

Brazenly breaks down the holy silos of the masculine and the feminine gender binary and revels in the ambiguity between.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 17, 2019

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a powerful story about identity and creation and pain and love.

| Jul 12, 2019

Mitchell's performance as Hedwig remains one of the best of modern times -- the character is by turns sexy, scary, outrageous, obnoxious, pitiable and vulnerable -- and it anchors a movie that landed on my list of the 10 best films of the 2000s.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 29, 2019

One of the few modern movie musicals that deserves to stand alongside the classics of the genre.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 4, 2016

Most movie musicals often use songs to create an exaggerated exterior of polished images, but here is one that uses them to reveal honesty that seems too painful to explain in mere conversation.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 25, 2015

...a swath of glittery eye shadow splashed across mainstream American movie screens.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 25, 2014

[VIDEO ESSAY] "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" is an important cultural touchstone for the LGBT community and a thrilling discovery for everyone.

| Original Score: A+ | Mar 20, 2012

A ball of gender confusion, Biblical allegories and Eastern European politics -one of those would be a tricky subtext for a 90-minute rock opera. But the songs marry Jim Steinman's grandeur to the Stooges' sweat and spit, with a deft, tender screenplay.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 24, 2010

One of the most delightful surprises of 2001, and it has lost none of its charm or its surprising power in the intervening years.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 16, 2010

Those expecting a rockin' good time are likely to be left cold by this screen translation, which despite some imaginative packaging too often proves a drag in more than the sartorial sense.

Full Review | May 20, 2008

Anyone who has ever felt discarded, disenfranchised, or just plain dissed will find in "Hedwig" a lot to hook into.

| Original Score: A+ | Sep 17, 2007

Definitely recommended for those looking for something different.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Mitchell's successful screen version of his acclaimed play, which feature one of the most original hero(ine), benefits immeasurably from the skills of his producer Christine Vachon and production designer Therese DePrez.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 4, 2006