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By Cameron Meier (130) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 14 Mar 2018

A film that honors gender identity while challenging our notion of what it means to be transgender…

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By Tt Stern-Enzi (212) for Dayton CityPaper (53) on 13 Mar 2018

All of us deal with this very existential crisis, but in Marina's case, it is obviously compounded by social mores, which varying degrees of…

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By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 13 Mar 2018

Leilo's film is warm and contemplative rather than cold and clinical, with light doses of magical realism and a marvelous lead performance from Vega…

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By Fernanda Solórzano (93) for Letras Libres (100) on 12 Mar 2018

fascinating fiction. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 11 Mar 2018

A Fantastic Woman is a brilliant film: a richly humane, moving study of someone keeping alive the memory and the fact of love…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 10 Mar 2018

It's a movie of the moment, pleading for hope and change against formidable, unfortunate odds…

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By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 09 Mar 2018

Mixed in with these dark strains, we have glints of comedy and bursts of magic realism...In this empathetic portrait of suffering and resilience,…

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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 09 Mar 2018

Hopefully there will be many more films to come featuring trans performers in leading roles, and Woman can be looked back on as a well-meaning…

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By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 09 Mar 2018

At every turn, A Fantastic Woman chooses a bolder path of realization over revelation and intimacy over inclusion - one on which Marina learns…

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By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 08 Mar 2018

Almost every interaction is tinged by (understandable) wariness, but since she confides in no one, including the audience, we never get past…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for New Orleans Times-Picayune (573) on 07 Mar 2018

While those flaws might conspire to keep A Fantastic Woman from being unassailably fantastic as a whole, there's no denying that it is fantastically…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 07 Mar 2018

A Fantastic Woman' is a movie for our time, covering issues about inclusion and identity that seem to be heightened in today's polarized world…

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By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 07 Mar 2018

Some of those advocacy aspects may play a bit broadly with contemporary American arthouse audiences more familiar with trans-rights issues,…

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By Graeme Tuckett (166) for Stuff.co.nz (387) on 06 Mar 2018

A Fantastic Woman rests on the shoulders of Daniela Vega's performance as Marina. Vega smoulders, seethes, and occasionally implodes…

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By Maria M. Delgado (4) for Sight and Sound (827) on 06 Mar 2018

An accomplished and deeply moving film, gloriously rendered with shifting harmonies, gusto, poise and heartfelt emotion…

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By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 06 Mar 2018

An intriguing look at the grieving process, identity politics and the fierce determination of a member of an underrepresented faction in society…

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By Ernesto Diezmartinez (236) for Reforma (226) on 05 Mar 2018

A conventional woman's film that has its greatest audacity in the charisma of its trans protagonist, Daniela Vega…

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By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 04 Mar 2018

Emotional, poetic, intensely moving, A Fantastic Woman is beautifully directed and photographed, has Hitchcockian undertones and finds memorable…

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By Tom Shone (158) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 04 Mar 2018

This is a fiercely internalised performance -- the anti-Almodovar -- with Vega's expression hovering between quiet dignity, sublimated anger…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 04 Mar 2018

A Fantastic Woman asks us to embrace all things fluid and, thanks to the superstar at its centre, it's a pleasure to go with the flow…

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