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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Screen DailyNikki BaughanScreen DailyNikki BaughanGay Chorus Deep South draws its strength not only from its subject, but also the effective way in which it it presents its arguments.
- 75RogerEbert.comMatt FagerholmRogerEbert.comMatt FagerholmThe overwhelming positivity in this footage is illuminating and encouraging, yet also more than a touch puzzling, raising questions of precisely where this intolerance hibernates when cameras aren’t around to support such devastating legislation.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisSan Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisWhat makes the film emotionally satisfying, beyond the stirring music, is that we witness the healing and enlightenment of chorus members, some of them bearing scars from their oppressive red-state upbringings.
- 70VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeRather than simply preaching to you-know-whom, director David Charles Rodrigues ... succeeds in humanizing the individuals on both sides.
- 70Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinThere’s much to recommend here — emotionally, sociopolitically, musically — and it’s heartening to see greater openness to LGBTQ+ folks than outsiders might expect; compassion, grace and humor are in abundant supply.
- 70The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyThe documentary is able to record only small, not sweeping, changes of heart. Nevertheless, the film, like the singers, maintains a compassionate optimism.
- The doc has stirring moments, but it has too many gaps to be considered a complete success.
- 60TheWrapDan CallahanTheWrapDan CallahanThere are the expected clichés voiced here about how music can transform hearts and minds, but Gay Chorus Deep South is most useful as a way of seeing how intolerance hides behind evasive Southern hospitality and how it might be vanquished with what that hospitality seeks to avoid: direct confrontation.