Even with a conclusion that you could see from a mile away through oversized false eyelashes... there is enough dramatic tension to make it work.

| Original Score: B | May 11, 2022

[It's] a well-acted and occasionally haphazard look at one young couple's journey into the intersections of sexuality, race relations, and social-class tensions, as they strive to be authentic, even if they don't always tell the truth about themselves.

| Aug 14, 2021

The boy and girl leads are terrific, and so is the film even if it doesn't seem so at first blush.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 3, 2021

Danielle Lessovitz's Port Authority is an unlikely love story that collides two antithetical worlds, then rummages through the romantic fallout.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 25, 2021

For the majority of Port Authority, it's the back and forth between kind romantic moments of Paul and Wye that succeeds.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 8, 2021

Port Authority may be far from perfect, but it's also a vital portrait of adaptability. Lessovitz presents a dynamic pair of protagonists while conveying the resilience of a community who's mastered building a world of their own.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2021

What distinguishes Port Authority from the film it too easily could have been is the radical empathy with which Lessovitz leads.

| Jun 6, 2021

Port Authority qualifies as a real New York story.

| Jun 5, 2021

[I]t's about Paul and only Paul. It's about who can help him and how, with no real success at probing the conflicts or systemic issues at hand.

| Jun 4, 2021

Port Authority is a simple story, but not a simplistic one, with naturalistic performances that make all the characters seem fully dimensionalized.

| Jun 4, 2021

I thought Leyna Bloom was absolutely tremendous, and she was worth seeing the film for.

| Jun 3, 2021

It approaches a topic that is emotionally complicated without judgment, with decency, dignity, and open-heartedness.

| Jun 3, 2021

It does cater to some tropes, but the story is always trying to tell a different type of tale.

| Jun 3, 2021

A deceptively simple romance doesn't take away that there is something quietly radical at work in the New York love story Port Authority, set in the underground Kiki ballroom dance community.

| Original Score: B | Jun 2, 2021

If you're looking for an immersive love story that takes you places you might not know, that challenges your conception of what romance looks and feels like, "Port Authority" is a great place to stop.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 2, 2021

This delicate drama tells a quintessential New York love story that features a compelling transgender perspective.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 2, 2021

Port Authority rises to the challenge of offering trans actors layered, nuanced roles...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2021

Port Authority is a film that takes a potentially interesting story and then tells it in such an awkward manner that it winds up nearly nullifying all of the genuinely good things about it.

| Jun 1, 2021

"Port Authority" has its straight white lead explore unfamiliar territory, but it lacks the visual savvy to match the complicated implications of that journey.

| Jun 1, 2021

This isn't a great movie, but it's a good one that deserves a fair hearing.

| Jun 1, 2021