The film exudes a winning empathy for the quandary of identity at the center of the narrative.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2024

Hooper has over-thought his film and unintentionally distanced his audience from relating to the material.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 23, 2022

The Danish Girl sees Hooper return to the territory of which he is a master; sweeping period drama with fascinating subjects.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 2, 2021

A tender treatment of a delicate subject but with a shallow focus.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2021

Thus, despite some moving moments, The Danish Girl largely rests on the surface of things.

| Feb 26, 2021

The Danish Girl is, in the end, a beautiful, frustratingly opaque love story that provides only a surface view of Elbe's journey.

| Feb 9, 2021

For me, the love story was not engaging enough to make the movie interesting.

| Apr 30, 2020

It was so shallow.

| Apr 30, 2020

The Danish Girl is a Thomas Kinkade painting set into motion - supremely crafted, but absent of substance.

| Apr 7, 2020

If seeing a pair of world-class actors surrounded by impeccable art design create fully rounded characters sounds like a good time to you, then The Danish Girl is not to be missed.

| Jan 13, 2020

Historically, Hirschfeld's Institute was looted by the Nazis in 1933 and all the records were burned. In-other-words The Danish Girl is a fiction based film taken from the skeletal remains of whatever scraps of paper were left behind after the Great War.

| Sep 15, 2019

A work of tremulous beauty buoyed by two of the most powerful screen performances in recent memory.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2019

Hooper's direction is refreshingly frank about how confusing and overwhelming Lili's transition was for her and her wife. Elsewhere, Coxon's immaculate script is perceptive, if a little on-the-nose...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2019

The film is masterfully composed and boasts two strong central performances that will undoubtedly merit their certain Academy recognition.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2019

Not always engaging, The Danish Girl is still able to provide some heartfelt moments even while the overall story arc could have been expanded upon.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 5, 2019

The whole film feels very dated but also, in spite of it being "based on a true story", false.

| Mar 7, 2019

The most gorgeous pictures in the world can't cover up phoniness, and that's exactly what Hooper and Redmayne's Lili feels like: phony. A pretty portrait of the wrong woman.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Feb 22, 2019

The Danish Girl is certainly well-directed and certainly boasts great performances, but the story sells audiences short. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 13, 2019

While Redmayne bravely steps into a unique role, it is Gerda's perpective and Vikander's acting that stand out.

| Jan 24, 2019

While the film has flaws that hinder it from being fully gripping (the last act in particular), Hooper has made a dazzling picture that is just another notch on his shiny awards season belt.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 14, 2018