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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleSuperb new documentary.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyDaryl Wein's engrossing portrait of Richard Berkowitz is freshly engaging largely due to the subject himself.
- 70Village VoiceMelissa AndersonVillage VoiceMelissa AndersonIt helps that Wein's subject is such a fascinating, garrulous paradox.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIn his illuminating, timelessly timely Sex Positive documentary, Daryl Wein calls attention both to unjustly neglected pioneering AIDS activist Richard Berkowitz and his still widely ignored groundbreaking promotion of safe sex.
- 63New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithFor gays who remember the nightmare, Sex Positive may be too depressing to watch. But the movie strikes a cautionary tone for a younger generation that, it says, isn't taking the HIV threat seriously.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanIntermittently compelling biography.
- 60The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe movie jolts you with the realization that the AIDS epidemic and the public debate about such issues have retreated so far under the news radar as to be half-forgotten.