[Lelio] should savour the considerable accomplishment of A Fantastic Woman. It may be a timely film, but it is its timelessness, as well as its depths of compassion, that qualify it as a great one
though emotionally charged and dramatic in its execution, Lelio takes creative risks, making for a film that while steeped in realism, has surrealist twists along the way, and several visually striking sequences that provide a slight, if enchanting touch
shocking and enraging, funny and surreal, rapturous and restorative, this is a film of startling intensity and sinuous mood shifts wrapped in a rock-solid coherence of vision
Sebastian Lelio gives us another stunning, deeply involving portrait of a woman with the borderline superhuman capacity not to hate herself for who she is, no matter who else does
by Ryan Gilbey [The Guardian ]
