It's the spark of a true legend.

| Mar 3, 2020

This is a fantastic doc... I just thought it was fascinating and so much fun.

| Oct 2, 2019

The gender identity and racial undercurrents of "The Queen" have a prescient quality, foreshadowing some of the tensions that the LGBTQ community is dealing with today.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 1, 2019

[A] riveting chronicle of a 1967 drag competition.

| Jul 11, 2019

Whether pushing the camera close to the performers or zooming in from afar to survey them intimately, Simon captures the lavish life of theatrical imagination that inspires them and makes gender itself seem like an urgent performance.

| Jan 15, 2018

The Queen is an extraordinary documentary.

| May 9, 2005

A gutsy, funny, pathetic, really very moving documentary about the 1967 All-America Camp Beauty Pageant.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

More interesting in some ways for its period flavor -- as a zoom-happy, all-over-the-place 60s document -- than for its depiction of the drag event, though both aspects have some value.

| Jan 1, 2000