Metacritic Movie Ratings
Transamerica Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 80

  out of 100

  VarietyEddie Cockrell

  Laugh-out-loud funny, tartly off-color and ultimately touching.

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• 80

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden

  Impressively realized on all levels, this transgender spin on the road trip boasts an extraordinary central performance.

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• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  What Felicity Huffman brings to Bree is the newness of a Jane Austen heroine. She has been waiting a long time to be an ingenue, and what an irony that she must begin as a mother.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The New York TimesDana Stevens

  Transamerica itself does not always live up to its star, but it is touching and sometimes funny, despite its overall air of indie earnestness.

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• 67

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  The unintended effect of all the melodramatic complications in Transamerica is, oddly, to distract attention from an understanding of exactly what that courage really costs.

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• 63

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Huffman is a woman playing a man playing a woman, which is easily the year's most complicated turn. She does a fine, nuanced job in bringing to life a character that could have become a caricature.

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• 60

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas

  Felicity Huffman is such a wonder, at once funny and brave, playing a pre-op male-to-female transsexual in the uneven comedy Transamerica that she sustains several lapses that might otherwise have sunk it.

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