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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90VarietyVarietyAn utterly fascinating, beautifully crafted exploration of the world of drag kings -- women who dress, perform and/or live as men.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceBaur's doc earnestly -- if not altogether adroitly -- examines masculinity as a performance, demonstrating that biology is not destiny.
- 60TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxThis provocative, at times languid, documentary from German experimental filmmaker Gabriel Baur is something of travelogue through this unexplored frontier, a mixed-up, shook-up borderland where nothing, especially not an individual's gender, should be ever be taken for granted.
- 60Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIt is clear that these individuals have exercised considerable courage and determination to sort out their sexual natures and to be true to them. They have the sturdy sense of human survivors, and in Venus Boyz Baur regards them with compassion and dignity.
- 38New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickIt's not uninteresting, but so much footage is given over to earnest discussion of sexual politics that the overall effect is like sitting through a semester's worth of transgender studies.
- 30The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayBecomes hard going the longer Baur stretches out the parade of narcissists, all spouting received wisdom, cultural clichés, and bad poetry.
- 30L.A. WeeklyErnest HardyL.A. WeeklyErnest HardyEmpty details pile up, awful performance art is doled out, talking heads are intermittently identified, and the late Brandon Teena is evoked to little real purpose.