'It's fascinating. We're never less than convinced that we're watching a man treat womanhood both as a daily reality and as theater.

It's debatable whether watching Huffman get dressed, take hormones, and learn to use a more feminine diction could sustain an entire movie, but the character is certainly a creation more original than a lot of the film itself...

Huffman lays on a coat of comic desperation, like what one might find in the early stages of a Pedro Almodovar picture.'

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe.