... ultimately, it is about the primacy of family and friends, and how decency begets decency.

| Sep 26, 2017

Around [Felicity Huffman's] bold performance shelter cardboard cut-outs.

| Sep 28, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

It's a very likeable film. With a big heart, good intentions and a sharp eye for social absurdities, it can hardly be anything else.

| Feb 24, 2006

Writer-director Duncan Tucker does little to develop his narrative setup beyond the basic and obvious, and his film begins to feel more like an exercise than a fully realized story.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 4, 2006

It's funny in spots, touching in others and uniformly life-affirming.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 2, 2006

Huffman's performance in Transamerica, as a pre-op male-to-female transsexual coping with the sudden emergence of a long-lost son, is much better than the movie it's in; indeed, she singlehandedly takes Transamerica to a higher plane.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 20, 2006

It's a farce with heart, a meditation on identity, family and gender politics that has real faith in its characters -- even when the characters themselves lack it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 20, 2006

Huffman makes it a must-see.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 20, 2006

A generally fun movie that offers a different perspective on, well, a different perspective.

| Original Score: B | Jan 20, 2006

It's all a little too cute and pat to be believable, and Tucker can't resist showing us everything he has learned about transsexuals in between the embarrassing moments and odd encounters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 20, 2006

Felicity Huffman's performance as Bree is striking in much the way Charlize Theron's was in Monster.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 20, 2006

The key to Huffman's performance ... is the way she plays the role with dignity. She likes this man, and so do we.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 20, 2006

With a tough-minded performance from Felicity Huffman and a script from writer and director Duncan Tucker that keeps its eyes on the road, Transamerica goes in for neither broad laughs nor 'we're all the same' speechifying.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 19, 2006

An abrupt but unforgettable movie with rough edges that lend it even more resonance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 19, 2006

It sometimes suggests a John Waters drag farce trying to go mainstream and sentimental.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 19, 2006

In Transamerica, Felicity Huffman out-Victor/Victorias Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 19, 2006

The movie works, and it does work, because Felicity Huffman brings great empathy and tact to her performance as Bree.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 19, 2006

The result of Huffman's and Zegers' fine performances, and Tucker's excellent work, is one of the most thought-provoking and best films of the year.

| Jan 13, 2006

Transamerica provides the frame and the occasion for one of the year's best performances, Felicity Huffman's as a woman trapped in a man's body who's passing for female while awaiting a sex-change operation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 28, 2005