Why so low rating?

It doesn't have a low rating, 7.0 average is a very good rating. Yes the performances are excellent, but to your last sentence the story itself isn't that interesting, when you consider all that has been in the news the past couple of years with Caitlyn Jenner. The transition is no longer novel.

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Maybe because it isn't a superhero film or a low IQ action CGI fest, which attracts brain dead "black and white" voters - people who only vote 1 or 10 out of 10 without a good reason which was why YouTube got rid of the star rating years ago

I prefer to give it 7.5 as I rarely give films 9 or above which is a good score and only a tiny portion gets 8

A 7.0 is not a bad rating at this point, certainly better than the vast majority of movies. But there is a bit of a history on this. This movie after its first couple of weeks was sitting at about 5.3, and has been going up ever since. That's because it was initially bombed by a bunch of bigots who simply hated the subject matter. I suspect many of them, never even saw the movie. Anything trans right now seems to produce a gut reflex mindless reaction in certain circles.

Just saw it for a 5th time and I have to agree with you, that the rating it's pretty low for this specific film. The smaller grade that at least I could see is a 7,9. I personally rate it a 10 because I can call it one of my all time favourite films but in a way I'm even ok with the 7 rating if we consider that it begun to reaching it slowly from a 5...smth one !

Glad to get a little insider information here. I was also confused as to why this seemingly amazing film was sitting at 7... Which is what Andy Samberg's Popstar movie is also at. I understand a 7 is good, but with such critical acclaim and great acting, I just imagined it would have done better. The subject matter is fascinating to me.

The rating isn't very low?if anything, it's higher than I expected, given the material the film depicts, and the world we live in. Some would say it's because, there are people out there (whom look down upon the transgendered community) would give it 1 star and a poor review in a heart beat, due to their prejudice towards the community. As an advocate of transgendered rights, I adored this film, but some moments in the film did seem somewhat dragged on, some even sluggish. But overall, with the material given, they pulled it off much better than I thought the film would.

A 7 is not low, what's wrong with you people. Even a 6 would be good. There are, maybe, one or two movies that deserve anything higher than an eight or nine.

This way of thinking is yet another reason why these Movie sites should ditch 1-10 ratings. Simply counting the number of people who click a thumbs up or thumbs down would be sufficient. This includes myself.

It's still 7/10, which is what I gave it. I found it a bit thin in terms of character development, though the performances were strong.