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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAn engrossing, smartly contextual look at the history of transgender depictions in film and television.
- 88RogerEbert.comNick AllenRogerEbert.comNick AllenThis Netflix documentary will undoubtedly help more people understand how transgender people have seen themselves represented in Hollywood — it brings everyone together with its critical eye.
- 80Film ThreatNorman GidneyFilm ThreatNorman GidneyDisclosure: Trans Lives on Screen not only leaves us with the hope that things will improve, but it also shows us how much better the industry is when everyone is included, represented, and respected. Here’s to a brighter, more diverse future for all trans actors.
- 80The New York TimesTeo BugbeeThe New York TimesTeo BugbeeWith each successive trip to the grim vaults, the hard-won dignity of the film’s transgender speakers is brought into sharper and sharper relief.
- 80VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeEssential, thoroughly engaging documentary.
- 80EmpireEmpireA captivating and comprehensive overview of trans representations in the media that everyone should add to their Netflix watchlist.
- Portrayals of transgender people in movies and television are a vast and complex subject, but Netflix’s new documentary Disclosure does an admirable job of covering many issues and contradictions a century of mostly insensitive screen depictions have raised.
- 75IndieWireJude DryIndieWireJude DryPerhaps what is most radical about Disclosure is the wide array of trans spirits both onscreen and off. In making the film, Feder and Cox are rewriting the very history they set out to tell, adding one more title to “positive representation” list. That alone is worth coming out for.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreIf you don’t like buzzwords or self-“actualization” jargon, Disclosure is going to be a hard pill to swallow. It’s a film awash in actresses, activists, models and historians (overwhelmingly trans female), almost all of them using this new nomenclature that the public at large is struggling to catch up with.
- 58The Film StageJoshua EnciniasThe Film StageJoshua EnciniasWhat the documentary overlooks, or mythologizes, only hurts the historical record of positive trans representation.