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  • 2021
  • Oscilloscope Laboratories
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2021
  • Oscilloscope Laboratories
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary American jazz musician Billy Tipton developed a reputable touring and recording career in the mid-twentieth century, along with his band The Billy Tipton Trio. After his death in the late 80s, it was revealed that Tipton was assigned female at birth, and his life was swiftly reframed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in...

Directed By: Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt

Written By: Amos Mac, Aisling Chin-Yee

  • 2021
  • Oscilloscope Laboratories
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2021
  • Oscilloscope Laboratories
  • 1 h 23 m

No Ordinary Man

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary American jazz musician Billy Tipton developed a reputable touring and recording career in the mid-twentieth century, along with his band The Billy Tipton Trio. After his death in the late 80s, it was revealed that Tipton was assigned female at birth, and his life was swiftly reframed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in...

Directed By: Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt

Written By: Amos Mac, Aisling Chin-Yee

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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83
Jul 14, 2021
No Ordinary Man is ultimately a melancholy look at how far things have or have not come for trans people since Billy Tipton’s death.
By Orla Smith FULL REVIEW
80
Jul 19, 2021
No Ordinary Man challenges the very basis of cultural production, eschewing the familiar accumulation of biographical and historical information and instead questioning the process by which such information is gathered.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
80
Jul 16, 2021
A fascinating deconstruction of history, culture, and identity, No Ordinary Man raises so many crucial questions — and answers them so thoughtfully — that it moves beyond entertainment into the realm of essential text. It belongs, equally, in theaters, streaming queues, and classrooms.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 13, 2021
Tender, topical and well-crafted, No Ordinary Man is no ordinary film.
By Brad Wheeler FULL REVIEW
75
Jul 16, 2021
Co-directors Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt exalt the professional and personal life of Jazz musician Billy Tipton in No Ordinary Man, and avoid simplification of the trans masculine experience.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 15, 2021
This is a respectful tribute that is a shade too morally and cinematically safe in its execution.
By Teo Bugbee FULL REVIEW
25
Jul 26, 2021
There’s one big problem about No Ordinary Man: The Billy Tipton Documentary: It’s not really about Billy Tipton. Instead, it’s about how transgender representation is perceived in the media, chiefly between 1989, when Tipton died, and current times.
By G. Allen Johnson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Parabola Films
Release Date Jul 16, 2021
Duration 1 h 23 m
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Website https://noordinaryman.oscilloscope.net/
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Awards

Directors Guild of Canada
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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