Manages to transcend the sex, drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer.
– Loren King,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug 2002
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This expert, heartfelt movie establishes them as being as much a part of swingin' San Francisco as the Grateful Dead or the Beats.
– Steven Rosen,
Denver Post,
9 Aug 2002
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An insightfully cheeky entertainment.
– Duane Byrge,
Hollywood Reporter,
21 Aug 2002
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As Weber and Weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve, the Cockettes weren't as much about gender, sexual preference or political agitprop as they were simply a triumph of the indomitable human will to rebel, connect and create.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
6 Sep 2002
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Cockettes has the glorious, gaudy benefit of much stock footage of Those Days, featuring all manner of drag queen, bearded lady and lactating hippie.