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37 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenImpressively realized on all levels, this transgender spin on the road trip boasts an extraordinary central performance.
- 80VarietyEddie CockrellVarietyEddie CockrellLaugh-out-loud funny, tartly off-color and ultimately touching.
- 80Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThis debut feature left me in a state of movie euphoria. Who could have guessed that such a discomfiting premise would blossom into a deadpan-hilarious and yet deeply affecting story about a singular glitch in the human condition?
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThe movie's soul is with Huffman. Speaking in a low voice, her posture as stiff as her vocabulary, her eyes a pool of sadness and hope, she turns this small, resonant film into a cry from the heart.
- 70L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorTransamerica is about as sexual as "The Brady Bunch." It's about an intelligent woman in excruciating transition to a new body that will line up with an identity she's held all along.
- 70The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensTransamerica itself does not always live up to its star, but it is touching and sometimes funny, despite its overall air of indie earnestness.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe unintended effect of all the melodramatic complications in Transamerica is, oddly, to distract attention from an understanding of exactly what that courage really costs.
- 67Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerThe best, and perhaps the only, reason to see Duncan Tucker's Transamerica is for Felicity Huffman's touching, shape-shifting performance.
- 60Chicago ReaderChicago ReaderAn occasionally touching, more often clumsy variation on the formula of crusty oldster and problem child bonding on a road trip. The main reason to see it is "Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman.
- 60Village VoiceBen KenigsbergVillage VoiceBen KenigsbergPleasant even without reaching much of a destination, Transamerica leaves the basic impression that it's not as self-satisfied as it could have been.