Port Authority

It approaches a topic that is emotionally complicated without judgment, with decency, dignity, and open-heartedness.

If you're looking for an immersive love story that takes you places you might not know, that challenges your conception of what romance looks and feels like, "Port Authority" is a great place to stop.

"Port Authority" has its straight white lead explore unfamiliar territory, but it lacks the visual savvy to match the complicated implications of that journey.

What it lacks in uniqueness of concept, it makes up for in evocative implementation of the medium.

Lessovitz is an outsider to the ball scene, and it shows.

This type of film reaches back to the studio system days, and the concept is well past its expiration date.

Even with a conclusion that you could see from a mile away through oversized false eyelashes... there is enough dramatic tension to make it work.

[It's] a well-acted and occasionally haphazard look at one young couple's journey into the intersections of sexuality, race relations, and social-class tensions, as they strive to be authentic, even if they don't always tell the truth about themselves.

The boy and girl leads are terrific, and so is the film even if it doesn't seem so at first blush.

Danielle Lessovitz's Port Authority is an unlikely love story that collides two antithetical worlds, then rummages through the romantic fallout.