The Cockettes Reviews
Film Threat
This is one of those rare docs that paints a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party.
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| Original Score: 5/5
San Diego Metropolitan
Much has been written about those years when the psychedelic '60s grooved over into the gay '70s, but words don't really do the era justice. You have to see it.
Top CriticCockettes has the glorious, gaudy benefit of much stock footage of Those Days, featuring all manner of drag queen, bearded lady and lactating hippie.
As Weber and Weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve, the Cockettes weren't as much about gender, sexual preference or political agitprop as they were simply a triumph of the indomitable human will to rebel, connect and create.
San Diego Union-Tribune
Gaudily filmed, tenderly imagined.
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| Original Score: 3/4
This expert, heartfelt movie establishes them as being as much a part of swingin' San Francisco as the Grateful Dead or the Beats.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Manages to transcend the sex, drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
E! Online
It's a warm, vibrant visit with a flock of freaky creative people and proves that being a total weirdo is a very good thing indeed.
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| Original Score: A
It celebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity, glancing vividly back at what Hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light.'
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
An irresistible documentary look at the ensemble of the moment in the hippie kingdom of San Francisco, this comprehensive and charming film not only recalls those days exactly, it also manages the wonderful trick of taking us back there along with it.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A fascinating poke into the soul of the '60s.
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| Original Score: B
New Times
In addition to lively interviews with surviving Cockettes features a dizzying array of vintage footage of the troupe in action.
L.A. Weekly
The real value of the film ... lies in its retrieval of a hugely influential -- even revolutionary -- arts collective from the cultural dustbin where anything that didn't happen yesterday, or on MTV, is casually remaindered.
Citysearch
A fascinating case study of flower-power liberation -- and the price that was paid for it.
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| Original Score: 10/10
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Colorful, informative documentary.
| Original Score: 3/4
