Harvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. Milk is a marvel.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
It's a total triumph, brimming with humor, heart, sexual heat, political provocation and a crying need to stir things up, just like Harvey did. If there's a better movie around this year, with more bristling purpose, I sure as hell haven't seen it.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
By nearly every measure, Milk is a beautifully made, far less conventional movie biography than most.Read Full Review »
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Slate: Dana Stevens
Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black pull off something very close to magic. They make a film that's both historically precise and as graceful, unpredictable, and moving as a good fiction film--that is to say, a work of art.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Sean Penn never tries to show Harvey Milk as a hero, and never needs to. He shows him as an ordinary man, kind, funny, flawed, shrewd, idealistic, yearning for a better world.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
What makes Milk extraordinary isn't just that it's a nuanced, stirring portrait of one of the 20th century's most pivotal figures, but that it's also a nuanced, stirring portrait of the thousands of people he energized.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
Three decades ago, Milk and his ilk were able to enlist President Jimmy Carter and future President Ronald Reagan in the gay fight against Prop. 6. But this fall, Barack Obama was all but mute on Prop. 8. Some community organizers, like the President-elect, are more cautious than others. It's a shame Harvey Milk wasn't around to recruit him.Read Full Review »
Milk feels like an important picture, but not in a way that makes it tedious to watch. There's no pretentious sheen to the proceedings.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Penn's Oscar-caliber transformation is breathtaking, and the saga of one man's fight for human rights is engrossing.Read Full Review »
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