Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City's gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), a trans activist group based in the heart of NYC's Greenwich Village. Her death in 1992 was declared a suicide by the NYPD, but friends never accepted that version of events. Structured as a whodunit, with activist Victoria Cruz cast as detective and audience surrogate, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson celebrates the lasting political legacy of Johnson, while seeking to finally solve the mystery of her unexplained death.
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson has generally received positive reviews.
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The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson was released in 2017 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 32 reviews, giving The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017) an average rating of 73%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 85%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 74%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson than critics were.
With a score of 73%, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2017, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2017 with similar scores include films like The Post, Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Thelma.
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