[The] documentary isn鈥檛 always easy to follow but the adventurous, impressionistic approach is entirely in keeping with the material.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

I defy you to watch Sisters With Transistors without feeling transported to another time and place. Let the stories of these groundbreaking women and their work wash over you, and you will find yourself caught up in the current.

| Jul 19, 2023

Brimming with Promethean insight on the relationship between human and machine - yet is also subdued in form, aiming for precision rather than panache.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2021

There is an extraordinary thrill seeing these talented artists express themselves in such inventive, radical, and progressive ways.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 9, 2021

The future was always within reach for women in electronic music, and this film thus acts as both a tribute, a homage and a roadmap to how they got to where they are today.

| Aug 7, 2021

Director Lisa Rovner builds a story of the individual depth and collective artistic value that leaves no question as to these women's importance to music history as well as the art world.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 27, 2021

The women who built EDM get their turn in the strobe light.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2021

It's fascinating to hear women from the 1950s articulating ideas about making electronic music that would be resisted or misunderstood for decades. It seems that many people just weren't listening, either to the music or women.

| Jun 2, 2021

Sisters With Transistors treats both its subjects and audience with care and intelligence, and its form takes cues from the very genre that it centers on.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 29, 2021

Essential if occasionally dry viewing for music nerds and more, filling in the gaps in the development of an important art form.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2021

Expressive, invigorating, and even a little bit haunting in a manner that few explanatory documentaries rarely attempt, let alone achieve.

| Original Score: B | Apr 28, 2021

This documentary about female pioneers in electronic music isn't as jaunty as its title might suggest.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2021

What a joy is a documentary that neither talks down to its audience nor diminishes its subject.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2021

It's unlikely that even the most devoted knob-twiddler has seen everything here, and there are some true gems

| Apr 24, 2021

[Sisters with Transistors] feels less like a film and more like a manifesto.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 24, 2021

The problem is the music, which is mostly a cacophony of beeps, whistles and screechy feedback loops that may symbolise the inherent rage of the female soul, but here amounts to nearly 90 minutes of low-level tinnitus.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 23, 2021

An important tribute to these women and their influence, it's also a cinematic experience that melds the visuals to the abstract, hallucinatory sounds of their compositions

| Apr 23, 2021

It tells an essential story that's been buried: women, including queer and trans women, shaped and even created the technology which is ubiquitous now while rarely reaping the benefits.

| Apr 23, 2021

Lisa Rovner's engaging documentary "Sisters with Transistors" documents a group of women who fought the establishment on two fronts: that electronic music is really music, and that women are capable of making it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2021

A fascinating examination of the rise of computer music.

| Apr 23, 2021