Traditional in form, peppered with commentary from academics, lawmakers, and religious conservatives, Knot makes up in sincerity what it lacks in style.

| May 27, 2022

Tying the Knot is effective ... in its depiction of the struggle for same-sex couples to achieve legal equality, but it gives short shrift to the opposing arguments.

| Sep 16, 2005

Tying the Knot is a flawed work that succeeds on the merits of its highly touching personal stories and its irrefutable debate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2005

Offers a refreshingly strong and lucid examination of the issue, even if it's edited a bit chaotically, cross-cutting between its various strands.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 6, 2005

An empowering, optimistic experience, humanizing the issue through poignant profiles.

| Nov 12, 2004

Not only offers useful information but contains moments of gravity and pathos that genuinely touch the heart.

| Original Score: B | Oct 25, 2004

A quietly effective exploration of the divisive subject of gay marriage in America.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 22, 2004

Regardless which side of the argument you are on, Tying the Knot is worth seeing for its political relevance and the human stories of those caught in the middle.

| Oct 19, 2004

It does a decent job of taking a broad issue and showing the impact it has on individuals.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 15, 2004

Personalizes the political with two heart-rending real-life cases.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 14, 2004

Probably the least controversial "controversial" documentary ever made.

| Original Score: C | Oct 11, 2004

De Seve brings together the stories, documenting them and not drilling rhetorically.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2004

It may not be the most meticulously crafted documentary in the world, but what Tying the Knot lacks in finesse it compensates for in making a heartfelt case for the hot-button topic of same-sex marriage.

Full Review | Oct 7, 2004

The film attains its greatest impact in the most specific cases.

| Oct 6, 2004

Has the good sense to take a large step back from the emotional debate surrounding the issue and scrutinize the history of marriage itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 6, 2004

Its issue is the debate over gay marriage, and director Jim de Seve does an outstanding job of humanizing the issue.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2004

Activist filmmaking... but neither strident nor plaintive.

| Original Score: B | Oct 5, 2004

The subject is worth exploring -- unfortunately, de Seve does so in a cut-and-dried manner that never explains why these two couples were able to stay together for so long.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 1, 2004

Like most hot-button documentaries, its impact is debatable, but filmmaker Jim de Seve makes an effective, an often moving case, for tolerance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 1, 2004

Documentarian Jim de Seve's cogent pro-gay-marriage argument appeals equally to emotion and reason.

| Oct 1, 2004