The cinematography tends toward cramped framing and busy composition but opens up nicely for the exciting fight sequences.

Full Review | Apr 12, 2010

An inspiring drama which, despite its uneven nature, still manages to pack a punch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2005

Manages to take a story that Jerry Springer would love and turn it into a sober and sensitive character study about identity and self-determination.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 21, 2005

You can't help but root for Asanee's troubled character, in and out of the ring.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 25, 2005

Though a bit long and occasionally awkward, this drama ultimately does justice to its inspiration.

Full Review | Feb 25, 2005

A rare hybrid: an underdog sports picture that's also a transgender fairy tale.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2005

'He fights like a man so he can become a woman,' reads the ad, but Uekrongtham's restrained film is neither as lurid nor as kitschy as the tagline portends.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 24, 2005

It seems some fences just can't be painlessly straddled -- no matter how much clearance your plastic surgeon provides.

Full Review | Feb 22, 2005

In fact, much like Calpernia Addams (the central figure in Soldier's Girl), Parinaya's ultimate triumph in the face of heavy adversity is awe inspiring.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 19, 2005

In the depth of its insight Beautiful Boxer in its unique way is as accomplished as any classic boxing movie, such as Body and Soul, Champion, The Set-Up, Rocky or even Raging Bull.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 17, 2005

An exquisite paradox, a tale of sublime beauty masquerading behind the front of a vicious fighter.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 15, 2005

It's too long and simplistic for the slight story it tells.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 11, 2005

The birth of Parinya's gender struggle is Freudian to the nth degree, but the confusion is evoked as a magical-realist pageantry of clashing cultural and sexual signifiers.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 6, 2005

A sweetly entertaining but bland biopic.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2005

Ekachai Uekrongtham imbues Toom's story with great tenderness, lush visuals and fierce physicality.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 21, 2005

There is only so much dichotomy one can show between brutal fights and caviar dreams, and the repetition becomes tiresome.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jan 21, 2005