Girlhood

Being an adolescent girl of color in the working-class suburbs of Paris is no easy job

"...crush on is friendly with a gang of three girls whom she had previously rejected, she about-faces and throws..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mama

Jessica Chastain stars in this spook tale that's rife with unsettling atmosphere.

"...his brother Lucas (Coster-Waldau) continues to search for the girls. Five years later, a search team finds Lilly (Nélisse)..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Treeless Mountain

So Yong Kim is an astute observer of young people as demonstrated with this film whose story is mostly told on the expressive faces of its two very young protagonists. Never overly sentimental or forcibly cute, Kim’s austere shooting style and scarcity of narrative accouterments provide a nice counterbalance to the sweetness of her young stars.

"...view. Jin and Bin’s harried mother (Lee) takes the girls at the start of the movie to live with..."

June 12, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Offside

Deeply immersive, thought-provoking, and quite often funny, Offside depicts the resourcefulness women in Iran must rely on in order to enter a stadium to watch, no less play, soccer.

"...and Ida Saghedi. In marketing a foreign film about girls and soccer, Sony Pictures Classics bends like Beckham what..."

June 8, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

For a movie about magic pants, this film shows a surprising level of sophistication – in its performances, its production values, and its emotional maturity.

"...transforms into something symbolic, and sincerely moving, about the girls’ unbreakable bond. That bond is tested for the first..."

June 3, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Superstar

"...Manheim dedicating her Emmy trophy to all the fat girls everywhere that Molly Shannon's popular Catholic schoolgirl character from..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wild Things

The film is a fun, sexy never-ending game of double-cross.

"...film -- except perhaps the old saw about good girls going to heaven and bad girls going everywhere. On..."

March 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

"...goes: This film is directed in general at young girls who are still in the horse-mad stage though puberty..."

May 31, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Slut in a Good Way

Charming sex-positive teen comedy is good old shameless fun

"...Catherine Léger and director Sophie Lorain follows three teenage girls (just enough for a coven) as they navigate love,..."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Suspiria

Giallo remake uses dark magic to give women their voices

"...giallo horror film, bones crack and urine squirts as girls fling and gyrate their bodies across the dance floor..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Permanent Record Theatre's Dry Land

With this production, this company makes a bold debut and a fierce statement about life for teenage girls

"...The girls' locker room is stuffed to bursting with untold secrets...."

Nov. 10, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

He Named Me Malala

Doc about the famous champion of girls' eduction, Malala Yousafzai

"...the head by the Taliban for espousing education for girls. The youngest person to ever receive the Nobel Peace..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Infinitely Polar Bear

Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana star in this intimate family drama

"...Maggie (Saldana, awfully good) and father of two pre-adolescent girls, Amelia (Wolodarsksy) and Faith (Aufderheide). Amelia (who is Forbes’..."

July 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Nim's Island

This girls adventure story that stars Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, and Gerard Butler bears the reminder that we should all be the heroes of our own life stories.

"...stories are a dime (store novel) a dozen, but girls adventure tales are rare things indeed. The new film..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Trade

This drama about international sex trafficking is tremendously sincere but also brutal.

"...element from Peter Landesman’s hotly contested slavery exposé, “The Girls Next Door,” published in 2004 in The New York..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

My Summer of Love

This ripe and symbolically drenched coming-of-age story nevertheless pleases due to its rare emotional honesty and the delightful performances of two young newcomers.

"...in the Yorkshire countryside when these two bored teenage girls first meet. "That's funny. You don't look like a..."

June 24, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Switchblade Sisters

This nifty little movie is full of all the lurid teases, off-the-cuff production values, and trenchant topicality that make exploitation movies the fascinating cultural time capsules they are.

"...the gang and in an electric declaration of the girls' right to be “impudent,” Maggie re-dubs the Debs as..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

"...Scarwid and David Keith. Adventure movies starring two adolescent girls are hardly commonplace and that, sadly, is virtually the..."

Nov. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Little Princess

From the exquisite costumes to the remarkable set design to the superb performances, this fairy tale comes to life.

"...War I and determines that Miss Minchin's School for Girls in America is a safer place than England for..."

May 26, 1995 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Circle of Friends

"...a lot to be said for those big soft girls,” remarks one character in Circle of Friends. Indeed there..."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

SXSW Film Review: We Were Dangerous

Reform-school girls break the rules

"...The girls sent to this reform school aren’t really bad apples,..."

March 9, 2024 SXSW Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Book Club: The Next Chapter

Tedious sequel recycles that Golden Girls energy again

"...It all started with The Golden Girls. Gather a few senior gal pals with divergent personalities,..."

May 12, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Kam Franklin (The Suffers), Jackie Venson & Sailor Poon Play Festive Fest

Eleven acts fundraise for Girls Rock Austin, Sunday at Mohawk

"...During a call with Madison Whitaker, the Girls Rock Austin Program Director drives around town delivering meals..."

Dec. 9, 2021 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Theatre en Bloc's Dance Nation

This production of Clare Barron's play invokes the experience of puberty for girls, in all its allure and terror

"...much that it's like some fiend is stalking the girls on the Liverpool, Ohio, competitive dance team. And in..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Nobody's Fool

Tiffany Haddish can't beat the Tyler Perry equation

"...output whenever she’s onscreen. As her breakthrough 2017 film Girls Trip amply demonstrated, she’s a comic force of nature..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Before I Fall

"...of young women (The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, Monte Carlo), and then cast a promising..."

March 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Split

Another twisted (and twisty) offering from M. Night Shyamalan

"...with dissociative identity disorder (DID), the three high school girls he abducts, and the therapist who tries to help..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Bold coming-of-age story is told from the girl's POV

"...In the era before girls “just want(ed) to have fun,” their introduction to sex..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

One Direction: This Is Us

This big, fat kiss to the band's young, female fans is directed by that advocate for good nutrition: Super Size Me's Morgan Spurlock.

"...but they acquired a devoted fanbase of tweeting tween girls whose enthusiasm quickly grew worldwide. Records soon followed, and..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Graceland

Ron Morales’ hostage thriller is a fluorescent-lit tour of the city’s seedy underbelly.

"...key scenes unfold in an actual landfill. We see schoolgirls cutting class to shoplift, payola cops bludgeoning prisoners, and..."

April 26, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

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