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Critics Consensus: The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson uses its belated investigation into an activist's murder as the framework for a sobering look at the ongoing battle for equal rights.
Critic Consensus: The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson uses its belated investigation into an activist's murder as the framework for a sobering look at the ongoing battle for equal rights.
All Critics (28) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (1)
Death is what leads the title and drives the movie. But it's her life - vibrant, pioneering, and much too short - that gives Marsha its flamboyant, beautiful heart.
In the end, "The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson" never really offers the closure that it is looking for so determinedly - but then, closure is kind of a myth, anyway.
The movie reminds the viewer how far we've come, but also how far we have yet to go.
Works powerfully as a rallying cry for tolerance, love and understanding.
Along the way, a sobering history of the gay rights movement is rendered through the lens of long-suffering transgender activists.
If Marsha P. fades from the film (there is not enough great footage of her, I guess, although enough to suggest she could be irresistible), the sense of vulnerability she projects permeates the rest of the movie.
The Death And Life Of Marsha P. Johnson offers a unique perspective on liberation for gender nonconforming individuals and is an imperative documentary for anyone looking to fully understand the origins and evolution of the LGBT movement.
A crucial look at not just the violence against transgender people but the long-fought struggle that trans people have had (and still have) within their own community.
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson leaves questions unanswered, and relaying just what that lack of closure feels like to those who have known a trans person whose death has remained unsolved is precisely the point.
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is an emotional journey, its true crime elements outweighed by the heavy stories of all the gay and trans activists that fought and died for the rights the community has today.
They also highlight Johnson's own story, fleshing it out and colouring in some of the lines of her story.
... the filmmaker illuminates the social differences that prevent trans integration even within the LGBT movement. [Full review in Spanish]
Interweaving a few different (but related) threads in a very cohesive and well-edited way, David France exposes the important legacy of the true frontliners of the LGBT movement, who were pushed aside but without whom there would have been no gay liberation movement.
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