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The Stroll

The Stroll

2023

Zackary Drucker, Kristen Lovell

Documentary

6.8

Documentary The history of New York's Meatpacking District transgender, sex workers lived and worked there. Kristen reunites community to recount the violence, homelessness and gentrification they overcame to build a movement for transgender rights.

	Media	Author	Review
		Jude Dry IndieWire	"A hauntingly poignant documentary that attempts to excavate and preserve that fractured history — while those who lived it are still here."
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"A raw and tender memoir (...) The spirit of so many who were lost infuses her piece (...) They truly had no-one but each other, and that love still shines through"
		Robert Daniels rogerebert.com	"It's a quick jaunt through history told with love, care, and assuredness (...) A film that promises something far more complex"
		Elizabeth Weitzman The Wrap	"The film celebrates the resilience and strength of survivors of West 14th Street, even as it leaves us wanting to know more"
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Powerful and poignant (...) It's surprising how much rich archival material Lovell and Drucker have found, cleverly supplementing it with fun graphics and animation"
		Manuel Betancourt Variety	"[It] is a wonder (...) Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s poignant documentary offers a thrillingly revisionist bit of New York City transgender history"
		John Fink The Film Stage	"A history of multiple communities and an important contribution to New York lore; a story told from the perspective of someone who made history and is now in a position to write it"
		B. Panther Paste Magazine	"[It] electrically merges trans history and trans present"
		Diego Semerene Slant	"[It] is overtly broad, detached, and full of ready-made empowerment rhetoric (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Brandon Towns rogerebert.com	"A riveting documentary about transgender women of color during the 1990s and early 2000s engaging in sex work (...) It is a story of despair, sisterhood, and triumph. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Chris Vognar Rolling Stone	"[It] is a vital work of recent urban history"

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