This documentary explores the sexual and social identity of contemporary black America through intimate, eye opening and often hilarious accounts from women and men who find love and community in the underground world of exotic dancing.... (Full plot summary below)
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This documentary explores the sexual and social identity of contemporary black America through intimate, eye opening and often hilarious accounts from women and men who find love and community in the underground world of exotic dancing.
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| Film ThreatLorry KiktaThe great thing about this documentary, other than seeing some very provocative dancing, is that it goes beyond the superficial and talks about the socioeconomic situations that most black people in America face. |
| Slant MagazinePat BrownThere’s a surprising sense of communal exchange between the male strippers and their fans in Gene Graham’s documentary. |
| IndieWireDavid EhrlichRaw, empathetic, and so insistently humane that it plays like a fun 82-minute “fuck you” to the power structures of a country that wants to squeeze the life out of its poorest black environments, This One’s for the Ladies is at its best when it slows down and keys in to a small pocket of the culture where strippers and customers really can have co-equal standing in the community that brings them together. |
| VarietyTomris LafflyThe whole affair is vastly entertaining — and far from indecent or intimidating. |
| The A.V. ClubBeatrice LoayzaGene Graham’s humanizing, scrappy, documentary portrait of the black men and women of exotic dancing offers more than mere titillation. |
| Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesGraham’s film teems with fascinating characters – ultimately, too many for the abbreviated running time. |
| SlateNichole PerkinsYou’ll go into the film ready to see some shiny, rippling flesh, and you will not be disappointed, but you’ll leave thinking about community and justice. |
| Vanity FairK. Austin CollinsThe documentary isn’t a masterwork of craft, but in the interviews, there’s always a glimpse of some broader story, be it the electric charisma of the women in the crowd, who are frankly just as fun to watch as the performers, if not more so, or the broader arcs of history and tradition. |
| Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshA detailed and affable exploration of this world, This One’s for the Ladies is so unabashedly sex-positive you just might want to find the closest all-male revue. |
| TheWrapCandice FrederickBecause Graham fills This One’s for the Ladies with so many different dialogues that don’t always connect, he prevents it from offering concise, sociopolitical insight about race, class, and sexuality. As a result, the film comes off as pedestrian and ultimately has nothing really essential to say. |
