Little Girl

Documentary about a young trans girl isn’t about her enough

"...it been curated by the filmmaker? In Sébastien Lifshitz’s Little Girl, these questions become all the more relevant as..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Lina Fisher

Daddy's Little Girl Gets Mean

Teresa Jeffs v. Natalie Malonis, Round Two

July 22, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Girl Next Door

"...photos to Hustler, she did, just like a good little girl. But when Hustler liked what they saw, Baker..."

June 23, 2000 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Girl Most Likely

Kristen Wiig plays the darker side of the girl who hasn't fulfilled her potential and Annette Bening co-stars as her Atlantic City mom.

"...Tiny and well-intentioned but dramatically inert and sham-kooky, Girl Most Likely is for Kristen Wiig completists only, and..."

July 19, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fat Girl

"...sex, as is the case in her latest, Fat Girl, a story of virginity lost. Titled À Ma Soeur!..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Girl on the Bridge

"...Vanessa Paradis, Claude Aufaure, Bertie Cortez and Giorgios Gatzios. Girl on the Bridge is a film about luck and..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Dead Girl

The filmmaker and an all-star cast create this somber murder mystery that has little mystery but is filled with a deep foreboding about the anguish that dominates some women's lives.

"...popular song that can be heard as The Dead Girl begins to wind down. The lyrics are plaintive and..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Danish Girl

Biopic about the first person to undergo sexual reassignment surgery

"...Redmayne delivers another physically transformational performance in The Danish Girl. This time, instead of mutating from a healthy young..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Quiet Girl

Irish tale of a lost girl finding hope will break and mend your heart

"...That simple tension is the heart of The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), Ireland's first-ever Best International Feature Film..."

March 10, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

God Help the Girl

Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch's first film is a charming movie musical in the key of Mod.

"...I was grasping for while watching God Help the Girl, the first film by Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart..."

Sept. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

It seems rather churlish to complain about entertainment aimed at little girls, who almost never get big-budget movies made just for them, nevertheless … this movie substitutes pluck and spunk for drama and sparkle.

"...pioneering days; in these modern times, we have American Girl to ease the overtaxed imagination of a child. American..."

July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tank Girl

A movie that combines Busby Berkeley chorus lines with killer mutant kangaroos and the wildest female action hero this side of La Femme Nikita.

"...Hewlett and Alan Martin's neo-underground cult comic book Tank Girl comes to life looking, amazingly, exactly like it ought..."

March 31, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Girl on the Train

Another girl gone in this tedious adaptation

"...Gone girls are very big business. Certainly Paula Hawkins’ bestseller The..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Little Traitor

Set in the British Mandate of Palestine in the summer of 1947, The Little Traitor stars Alfred Molina and tells its story through the eyes of a young innocent.

"...script and top-drawer acting from its youthful leads, The Little Traitor falls resoundingly flat for exactly the opposite reasons...."

April 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Party Girl

Parker Posey's breakout role came in this NYC coming-of-age indie in which she plays a hipster party animal who tries to settle down as a librarian.

"...Desando, Donna Mitchell, Liev Schreiber and Nicole Bobbitt. Party Girl will do for library science what Saturday Night Fever..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Little Mermaid

"...to join the ranks of Disney's earlier classics, The Little Mermaid follows the studio's old formula to the letter:..."

Nov. 24, 1989 Movie Review by Warren Spector

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

This indie hit is sweet and funny

"...Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s large-hearted Me and Earl and the Dying Girl found a lot of champions at its Sundance premiere..."

June 26, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Factory Girl

Sienna Miller nails Edie Sedgwick's gamine naivete in this biopic, but the film feels far too pat for its own good.

"...Herrman and Hayden Christensen. Who is this generation's It Girl? And does it deserve one? There's an argument to..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Bona fide "art" movie starring this season's It Girl, Scarlett Johansson, is as flat and enigmatic as the titular portrait by Vermeer.

"...Essie Davis, Joanna Scanlan and Alakina Mann. Lord knows, Girl With a Pearl Earring is a bona fide art..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Single Girl

"...debate their future: The opening shots of A Single Girl (La Fille Seule) strike an eternally familiar note. This..."

July 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Girl Two

"...those Indiglo watches for Christmas and while viewing My Girl 2, I pressed the illumination button on it three..."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

White Girl

Sex, drugs, and privilege

"...yourself for the salvo that is Elizabeth Wood’s White Girl, the latest in the perennial state-of-the-union movie concerning “today’s..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Tonight's Your Last Chance to See 'Girl Rising'

'One girl with courage is a revolution'

"...Girl Rising is a story of big dreams. The feature..."

May 2, 2013 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

Birthday Girl

"...Aidan Quinn and Stockard Channing?) The British comedy Birthday Girl isn't up in the rarefied air of her other..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Girl, Interrupted

"...Adapted from Susanna Kaysen's memoir of the same title, Girl, Interrupted tackles the ever-popular subject of mental illness and..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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

Little

Time goes backward in this riff on Big (or maybe it just feels that way)

"...people that I was going to see this movie, Little, no one seemed to be able to place it,..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

'Cribdeath: Bellocq's Girl'

Second-place winner

"...and a washstand – perhaps a chair ... crib girls could command as much as a dollar a 'trick.'..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Books Feature by F.J. Schaack

A Little Princess

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

"...the Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden) novel, A Little Princess tells the tale of a young girl who..."

May 26, 1995 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

The Girl Who Met Robert Johnson

Shirley Ratisseau wrote a song with Robert Johnson

"...When she was a little girl, Shirley Ratisseau met Robert Johnson. Kind Hearted Woman..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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