Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Disclosure is a genuinely distinctive and important documentary that offers a rare, insider transgender perspective on Hollywood representation — narrated and produced by Laverne Cox, it brings an authoritative and emotionally resonant voice to a topic rarely examined with this depth. The film's archival clip analysis is sharp and illuminating, making its central argument feel both urgent and revelatory. Novelty is high because the specific lens — transgender creators critiquing their own cinematic history — is singular and unmistakable. Acting/interview presence is solid but variable across subjects. Cinematography is functional documentary work without particular visual ambition. The ending resolves its thesis competently but doesn't land with exceptional power.