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Carrie Pilby
2017
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Positive Reviews
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1.5
Unfolding like an ABC Family movie thats been graced with an unusually strong cast, Carrie Pilby bumbles its way towards personal growth with very lit ..
Indie Wire
2.2
Whatever the case, this flimsy and frustratingly inauthentic adaptation is a golden example of what happens when a coming of age story shares the same ..
Indie Wire
3.0
With a twinkly piano score and a screenplay that embraces the cute boy next door cliche unapologetically, this is not a film which challenges the ster ..
Screen Daily
3.8
Give humanity a chance, Petrov says, in what may as well be the movies easily digestible tagline.Someone might surprise you.
Rogerebert
3.0
Screenwriter Kara Holden takes the overweening first person narration of Caren Lissners novel and funnels it into conversations with Petrov instead of ..
Village Voice
1.0
I was clearly fidgeting throughout most of Carrie Pilby and thus arguably opening myself up to a conversation.Following a recent screening, the woman ..
Film Journal
4.0
This is, ultimately, a very happy and upbeat film, and one with a very clear moral center.
The Guardian
2.5
What makes it tolerable is the pungent dialogue and the vibrant centerpiece performance by Powley.
Observer
2.0
After all, Powleys talent as an actress cant make up for a flimsy script and underwritten characters.
Common Sense Media
1.5
A core of substance and a fine cast are squandered in the relentless hard sell perkiness of this mild comic drama.
New Yorker
0.0
In the world of the film, female intelligence is always excessive and feminine rejection of gender norms is inevitably pathological.
Slant Magazine
1.0
In 2015, Bel Powley stole Sundance with her performance in The Diary of a Teenage Girl..Carrie Pilby poses a tougher test.
The New York Times
3.5
Life is messy, no one is perfect, and theres nothing wrong with either.
The Film Stage
3.5
But Carrie Philby distinguishes itself because its awkward, immature nerd is a young woman; it shouldnt be so rare to see a woman convincingly portray ..
Flickfilosopher
2.0
At its worst, the film oozes the sickly smugness of a self help pamphlet, but when it relaxes its didactic grip and lets the actors take control it ca ..
Hollywood Reporter
2.0
The actress wears cutesy neurosis very well, but her facility for it underlines how close to sitcom terrain this whole concept is.
Variety
3.2
This emotionally immature braniac character is funny and heartbreaking in equal measure.
The Play List
1.3
Incidentally, this cheap bit of embarrassment humour scored laughs instead of groans at my screening, which suggests that a generation throwing TV awa ..
Film Freak Central
3.0
Pilby is a 19 year old genius, and not the fun kind like Tony Stark.
Punch Drunk Critics
2.0
My memory of the book is blurry, but the film Carrie Pilby, anchored by a strong lead performance from Bel Powley (Diary of a Teenage Girl), is an ove ..
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