The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

A Fantastic Woman is a brilliant film: a richly humane, moving study of someone keeping alive the memory and the fact of love.

Total Film by Kevin Harley

Defiant, determined, Vega delivers a star-making performance in a drama of embattled grief, directed with heart.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Calvin Wilson

In our increasingly polarized time, A Fantastic Woman bridges the gap between ignorance and understanding through the transcendent power of art.

Consequence by Danielle Solzman

To say that Vega is marvelous in her portrayal of Marina is nothing short of an understatement. She’s an inspiration to transgender and non-binary people across the globe, all while delivering the performance of a lifetime.

Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang

There are moments here that arrest you with their hallucinatory power.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

Psychologically astute and socially aware as the film is, it is also infused with mystery and melodrama, with bright colors and emotional shadows.

The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney

Shocking and enraging, funny and surreal, rapturous and restorative, this is a film of startling intensity and sinuous mood shifts wrapped in a rock-solid coherence of vision.

The Guardian by Ryan Gilbey

It may be a timely film, but it is its timelessness, as well as its depths of compassion, that qualify it as a great one.

CineVue by Patrick Gamble

It's how the film handles grief and alienation which makes Marina's story so compelling.

The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

The superb Vega’s steady, liquid, fathomless gaze is so direct that we come to understand that behind it, behind the barricade of defenses she’s built up against an unfriendly world, she is no enigma at all: she is completely known to herself.