
Are there limits to your love for your family? One family's acceptance is tested when a champion diver, destined for the Olympics, announces they're transitioning from male to female and invites their YouTube followers along for every moment. It's a story about unconditional love and finding the courage to be yourself.... (Full plot summary below)
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Are there limits to your love for your family? One family's acceptance is tested when a champion diver, destined for the Olympics, announces they're transitioning from male to female and invites their YouTube followers along for every moment. It's a story about unconditional love and finding the courage to be yourself.
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| L.A. BizAnnlee EllingsonBy recording [Gigi's transition], sometimes in gory detail, This Is Everything opens a window onto the trans experience that engenders empathy and understanding. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt FagerholmThere’s a chilling resonance to the moment where Gigi reflects on the legacy of German physician Magnus Hirschfeld, and the Nazis that attempted to silence his groundbreaking advocacy for gay and transgender rights. |
| New York TimesGlenn KennyAdam Wescott and Scott Fisher, Ms. Lazzarato’s management team, are executive producers for the film, and to a great extent “This Is Everything” seems to follow an agenda set by them in tandem with the movie’s subject, which is largely commendable in its pitch for acceptance and against bigotry. |
| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayKopple and her team have combed through the hours and hours of those dispatches that Gigi has sent into the world, and from them they’ve pieced together a story very much worth telling. |
| NOW TorontoKevin RitchieJust as Lazzarato is set loose to live her dream as Tawny Kitaen 2.0, Kopple is liberated from the hermetic self-shot YouTube footage, and the technological story is seamlessly entwined in the personal one. |
| Village VoiceAbbey BenderAnonymous haters on YouTube can say Gigi is fake, but her enthusiasm here, and the enthusiasm her teen girl fans have in meeting her, is totally genuine. |
| indieWireJude DryGigi is an invaluable role model to young trans people in her ferocious courage and undeniable fabulousness, but the film is little more than a celebration of that. |
| Los Angeles TimesKimber MyersWith This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, acclaimed filmmaker Barbara Kopple retains her signature intimacy and freedom from judgment of her subject. |
| Hammer to NailChristopher Llewellyn ReedAs for Gigi, she is quite an experience unto herself, and will more than hold your attention for the 90 minutes she is on screen. |
| The RingerK. Austin CollinsWhat sets the movie apart is Gigi herself, for whom there is no real divide between private life and public performance |