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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThe charismatic young women who populate Daniel Peddle's illuminating documentary are vibrant proof that there's still an untold story waiting around every New York City corner.
- 75TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxPeddle captures a vital and increasingly visible community that's easily misunderstood, and his film will undoubtedly help novices further understand the complex differences separating gays, transsexuals and the transgendered.
- 70VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibDocumaker Daniel Peddle also works as a casting director, and so it is small wonder his crisp, concise, intimate portrait of six very different, self-styled "aggressives" -- women who stress their masculine sides -- should reveal in each a curious integrity and beauty.
- 70The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinIn the film's briskly paced 72 minutes, any open-minded viewer will discover something about identity and about the comfort these women have obviously found in learning to be their unusual, unfettered selves.
- 60Film ThreatMerle BertrandFilm ThreatMerle BertrandWhat might just be this film's greatest strength is how it shows that no matter how "different" we might appear to be on the outside, what's on the inside is what provides our common bonds.
- 60Village VoiceMelissa AndersonVillage VoiceMelissa AndersonThankfully, Peddle's film is much more illuminating than a grad school seminar.
- 38New York PostNew York PostThe Aggressives has plenty of character but no story; it would have done better to structure itself around a competition it briefly visits in which lesbians, in costume, compete to win prizes for looking masculine. That way the film would have had a direction.