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  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Showtime Networks
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Showtime Networks
  • 1 h 32 m
XY Chelsea

Summary A look at the life and career of Chelsea Manning, a trans woman soldier in the United States Army, who was sentenced to serve 35 years at an all-male military prison for leaking information about the country's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Directed By: Tim Travers Hawkins

Written By: Mark Monroe, Enat Sidi, Andrea B. Scott

  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Showtime Networks
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Showtime Networks
  • 1 h 32 m

XY Chelsea

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary A look at the life and career of Chelsea Manning, a trans woman soldier in the United States Army, who was sentenced to serve 35 years at an all-male military prison for leaking information about the country's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Directed By: Tim Travers Hawkins

Written By: Mark Monroe, Enat Sidi, Andrea B. Scott

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
60
44% Positive
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56% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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44% Positive
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56% Mixed
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0% Negative
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80
May 29, 2019
Hawkins seems beguiled by Manning’s natural charisma, and more interested in the highs and lows of her personal reckoning. These are fascinating in their own right, yet more context might have made this feel like more of a definitive portrait.
By Simran Hans FULL REVIEW
80
May 28, 2019
Hawkins smartly keeps the details of Mannings’ leaks – both in their content and the manner of their distribution – to a tight segment at the film’s mid-point. The effect is to create space for the film to explore something altogether messier and contentious – Manning’s identities as a trans woman and a political activist, and the problematic, even dangerous, ways that her private self and public persona relate.
By Christopher Machell FULL REVIEW
70
May 9, 2019
The filmmaker seems to have been granted unprecedented access to both Manning and to the people around her, and he uses this natural, unforced intimacy to present a fragmented portrait of a person attempting to readapt to a society in which they never particularly learned how to fit.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
60
May 30, 2019
What’s left is a touching and tragic portrait of a vulnerable work in progress, one that for now might only be visible through a clouded lens.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
60
May 22, 2019
This is very much a sympathetic fly-on-the-wall with Team Chelsea, but, considering the high drama of Manning’s life, the resultant film is muted and disjointed, and given to impressionistic images – such as landscapes out of car windows – when really the time could have been spent telling us more.
By Steve Rose FULL REVIEW
60
May 9, 2019
This frequently fascinating, frustrating study in naiveté, personal turmoil and self-discovery leaves the viewer stranded in process.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
50
May 9, 2019
While it’s hardly Hawkins’ error that his documentary feels unfinished — the self-defined activist’s dramatic saga is still unfolding as we speak — you can’t help but feel his unprecedented access to Manning should have emanated a portrait a lot more enlightening.
By Tomris Laffly FULL REVIEW

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Production Company BFI Film Fund, Diamond Docs, Faliro House Productions, Field of Vision (II), Pulse Films, Showtime Documentary Films, The BFI, Topic Studios, Wholespace Collective
Release Date May 10, 2019
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline The Convictions of Chelsea Manning
Website https://www.sho.com/video/67185/xy-chelsea-official-trailer
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Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
American Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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