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By Alberto Bermejo (41) for El Mundo (Spain) (301) on 15 Oct 2017

Daniela Vega strongly defends her charismatic character in a story that happens naturally... [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Jordi Costa (207) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 12 Oct 2017

A Fantastic Woman ... is free and happily overwhelming. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 10 Oct 2017

It's a shame as it's all put together with a passion and verve redolent of Pedro Almodovar at his best, but it lacks his ability to sustain…

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By Andrea G. Bermejo (61) for Cinemanía (Spain) (558) on 10 Oct 2017

this character fantastically interpreted by Daniela Vega invites to us to cross two equally fascinating worlds. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Gary Shannon (53) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 10 Oct 2017

A Fantastic Woman feels cripplingly safe, opting for a declaration of obvious moral standards, underlined in bold, over penetrative study…

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By Katherine Mclaughlin (276) for The List (2,018) on 03 Oct 2017

The focus is on the individual experience, showing how grieving is a personal process…

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By Chelsea Phillips-Carr (52) for Cinema Scope (405) on 24 Sep 2017

[Sebastian] Lelio's film isn't perfect, but through [Daniela] Vega's presence, it does its best to give full cinematic agency to a woman traditionally…

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By Brian D. Johnson (137) for Maclean's Magazine (153) on 20 Sep 2017

[Daniela] Vega's gaze transfixes the camera with smouldering resolve, you can't take your eyes off her…

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By Tomas Trussow (247) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 11 Sep 2017

Underneath the sparse plotting, there is so much playfulness and subversion going on in A Fantastic Woman that new strands could reveal themselves…

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By Susan G. Cole (137) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 06 Sep 2017

The filmmaking is expert. Watch how Lelio uses mirrors and windows, especially in the moments just after the aforementioned family attack…

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By Pablo Villaça (1,590) for Cinema em Cena (1,589) on 05 Sep 2017

This beautiful movie and its fabulous actress expose the kind of subtle and poisonous intolerance that can sound almost innocent at first…

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By Elena Lazic (92) for Seventh Row (175) on 29 Jun 2017

In the end, A Fantastic Woman proves a subtle and poignant statement on what we accept as 'normal…

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By Sarah Ward (538) for Concrete Playground (635) on 13 Mar 2017

Empathetic and engaging from start to finish, complete with an exceptional lead performance and one perfect song cue…

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By Ed Frankl (41) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 Feb 2017

Timely issues of transgender rights both in Latin and North America help make A Fantastic Woman a bolder, brasher film, fiery in comparison…

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By Patrick Gamble (128) for CineVue (2,163) on 17 Feb 2017

It's how the film handles grief and alienation which makes Marina's story so compelling…

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By Ryan Gilbey (367) for The Guardian (2,969) on 17 Feb 2017

It may be a timely film, but it is its timelessness, as well as its depths of compassion, that qualify it as a great one…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Feb 2017

Shocking and enraging, funny and surreal, rapturous and restorative, this is a film of startling intensity and sinuous mood shifts wrapped…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 17 Feb 2017

Driven by a powerhouse performance by mesmerising transgender actress Vega, the fifth feature from Sebastián Lelio combines urgent naturalism…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 17 Feb 2017

Vega’s tough, expressive, subtly anguished performance deserves so much more than political praise…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Feb 2017

The superb Vega’s steady, liquid, fathomless gaze is so direct that we come to understand that behind it, behind the barricade of defenses…

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