XY Chelsea's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
The filmmaker seems to have been granted unprecedented access to both Manning and to the people around her, and he uses this natural, unforced intimacy to present a fragmented portrait of a person attempting to readapt to a society in which they never particularly learned how to fit.
Los Angeles Times
This frequently fascinating, frustrating study in naiveté, personal turmoil and self-discovery leaves the viewer stranded in process.
The Wrap
This is a very difficult personal narrative to try to digest and make sense of, but at least XY Chelsea makes for a start on this, even if it cannot approach anything definitive on her singular story.
Variety
While it?s hardly Hawkins? error that his documentary feels unfinished ? the self-defined activist?s dramatic saga is still unfolding as we speak ? you can?t help but feel his unprecedented access to Manning should have emanated a portrait a lot more enlightening.