Lovell and Drucker prove adept interviewers. Their subjects open their hearts, sharing the innermost fears and horrors of their time on The Stroll.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 5, 2023

What’s most astonishing about the film is the way it refuses the censuring, sensationalized gaze that has so often been used to frame and present the lives of trans sex workers.

| Jun 29, 2023

Brings a unique perspective to the transgender women of color who formed a “community” working “The Stroll.”

| Jun 25, 2023

“The Stroll” is a testament to how important and necessary it is for underprivileged groups to have the ability to tell their own stories.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 23, 2023

Its complex portrait of changing times enhanced by some creative stylistic means, including animated sequences, The Stroll ends up a first-rate chapter in neglected queer history.

| Jun 22, 2023

Ostensibly a slice of local history of an increasingly gentrified city that sees marginalized folks as handily disposable, “The Stroll” is an empathetic portrait of a community still fighting for its own survival.

| Jun 22, 2023

It’s the rare movie that allows transgender sex workers to speak for themselves without sanitizing or sensationalizing their experiences.

| Jun 22, 2023

At its core, The Stroll is about giving dignity back to a group of people who’ve had their personhood systematically denied for decades.

| Jun 21, 2023

The Stroll is a vital work of recent urban history. Even if you wouldn’t want to have lived there, you won’t regret visiting.

| Jun 21, 2023

The stories told in “The Stroll” are valuable. This is a marvelous documentary that showcases lives that should not be forgotten or erased.

| Jun 21, 2023

The Stroll is overtly broad, detached, and full of ready-made empowerment rhetoric.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 21, 2023

[The Stroll] is a portrait of misery, institutional violence, persecution, media and social stigmatization, and deaths, but also, of love, camaraderie, and the fight for visibility and rights. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2023

From both a technical and political standpoint, “The Stroll” is a tremendous achievement.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 20, 2023

Through Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s insightful and intimate interviews and interspersed archival footage, 14th Street becomes layered like an archeological diagram.

| Original Score: 9.7/10 | Jun 20, 2023

The Stroll is an astute, wide ranging, and comprehensive oral history of a place and time in New York City that suffered great stigmatization and hardship, but also one that fostered a strong sense of community among those who lived through it.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 5, 2023

Working with the gifted Zackary Drucker, filmmaker Kristen Lovell bravely puts her life on the screen, revealing the humanity of transgender sex workers who are still seeking basic human rights.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2023

The Stroll is powerful filmmaking that asks an important question: What if you had to fight every day for the right to simply be yourself?

| Apr 14, 2023

The Stroll is a must-see doc that can help manifest real change, but only if we champion it as loudly as these filmmakers champion the trans women of colour who made this all possible.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 30, 2023

The Stroll meanders along, trying to line up some action, and finding nothing more than half-hearted nostalgia.

| Mar 16, 2023

Kristen Lovell has skin in the game of the story she tells, making The Stroll, an oral/archive history of the trans sex workers of New York’s Meatpacking District, a raw and tender memoir.

| Mar 16, 2023