"Laurence Anyways" is a formidable display of French Canadian director Xavier Dolan's prodigious talents, but also a case study of a young talent still finding his way to greatness.He'll get there one day, soon, but this film doesn't quite do it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 10, 2013

Lushly romantic and daringly original.

| Sep 12, 2013

It's all too much, really, including its 21/2-hour-plus running time. But it's also engrossing, an ultimately tender story of a transsexual's transformation over 10 years and its effect on him and the people around him.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2013

Laurence Anyways has the feel of a personal project that got away from Dolan, full of raw, rough-edged drama in desperate need of discipline and refinement.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2013

At nearly three hours, it's by turns an extraordinary and exhausting work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 3, 2013

Poupaud's quiet moments convey a lofty, poignant introspection, and Clment erupts with grand, if scattershot, furies.

| Jul 1, 2013

Laurence Anyways, Xavier Dolan's third film, acknowledges the messiness of transgendered life, and the sizeable gaps between tolerance, acceptance, and actually going to bed with someone.

| Jun 28, 2013

At nearly three hours, it's entirely too long, needlessly padded out with an intrusive interview-framing device.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 28, 2013

[Mr. Dolan] perfectly evokes the violating effect of a stranger's scrutiny and the imponderable depths of a lover's gaze.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 28, 2013

For all of its transgender drama, "Laurence Anyways" remains a love story, pure but not so simple.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2013

Without belittling the challenges and prejudices Laurence faces, Dolan places her story into larger contexts, posing questions about conformity, heartbreak, love and self-fulfillment.

| Jun 27, 2013

Xavier Dolan's refreshing and extraordinary achievement here is fiercely telling a grand tale with the most universal of themes (love), and carefully exempting it from victimization while not avoiding the social issues that surround it.

| Jun 27, 2013

A nearly three-hour epic, a melodrama writ large, and blessed with a young man's ambition.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 27, 2013

Forgive this film its marvelous moodiness-someone needs to go there once in a while.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2013

Both deeply refreshing and important.

| Jun 25, 2013

Fully immodest and intermittently astonishing.

| Jun 24, 2013

[It] zeroes in on the impact of transgender on a relationship, and tries to understand what makes two people stay together or fall apart.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 21, 2013

It takes cojones for a filmmaker to chase Fassbinder's ghost, but it takes heart and talent to damn near catch up with it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 20, 2013

This big, dreamy, audacious picture has larger questions about relationships and identity. Can anyone be true to his or her inner self in the context of romantic love?

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 7, 2012

Poupaud and Clement recite and smirk and shout the lines at each other, without ever seeming genuinely to care about the issues or the people.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 29, 2012