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Dirty Girl
2011
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Dirty Girl
Positive Reviews
12
Negative reviews
13
Average Rating
2.7
/5
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1.2
Writer director Abe Sylvia reflects mid 80s Middle America through a fisheye indie lens, and films dont get much uglier than this.
Av Club
2.0
Dirty Girl is much more fun when Danielle is behaving badly. Unfortunately, that only lasts about 20 minutes, and as soon as she befriends Clarke an u ..
Common Sense Media
1.5
Dwight Yoakam and Mary Steenburgen are Clarkes wonky folks, while as Danielles mom, Milla Jovovich tries her tacky best to show the apple doesnt fall ..
Variety
3.8
Dirty Girl is an off beat gem thats well worth the bidding war it inspired at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.
We Got This Covered
1.9
Which isnt to say that we dont form a relationship with these creatures.
4.5
Given the right campaign, theres no reason why Dirty Girl shouldnt clean up in the specialty market.
The Hollywood Reporter
1.5
Enjoyable to a fault, Dirty Girl struggles at times with tone, unable to find an effective balance between scenes that border on farce and those with ..
Paste Magazine
2.0
attempts at situational humor on the road including a stripping scene for Dozier as coming out metaphor fall embarrassingly flat.
2.5
Social satire, heartbreaking family drama and a lot of toe tapping 1980s music attempt to exist in the same space. Watching this movie is like eating ..
San Francisco Chronicle
2.0
One can appreciate an artistic effort without actually endorsing it, which may be the most generous approach to Abe Sylvias frustratingly uneven debut ..
Ny Daily News
2.5
Dirty Girl isnt. Sorry, but its just faux grime, a thin layer of bad behaviour that wipes clean with a two ply tissue to reveal the real movie beneath ..
The Globe And Mail
1.5
A feeble teenage outcast movie set in 1987, Dirty Girl exists primarily as a vehicle for first time writer director Abe Sylvias favorite Reagan era ja ..
Village Voice
3.1
Still, The Way is, more often than not, a charming piece of work that ultimately works as both a film and as an irresistible travelogue.
Reel Film Reviews
4.5
He doesnt look like a typical movie lead, and his brand of gay affectation isnt the cartoonish kind that audiences have gotten used to, but Dozier mak ..
The Wrap
1.3
If your sensibility is pure trashy camp, dont expect anyone not to laugh when you try to be earnest.
New York Post
4.5
Totally engaging road movie, lit by ingratiating performances. An impressive directorial debut by Abe Sylvia.
Film Journal International ..
2.8
After yet another outburst, shes placed in a remedial class as punishment.
Npr
2.5
Easily distracted from everything but boys, slovenly about homework and indifferent to the towns conventional ideas of morality, shes a misfit in Norm ..
Observer
2.0
The film rolls downhill to Serious Town when Danielle finds her father, and although the performers are equipped to handle it, it gets more heavy hand ..
Movies
1.8
Dirty Girl is such an inept attempt at abstinence propaganda that it should have the opposite effect on teen girls chomping at the bit.
Coles Mithey
3.1
This is a fearless performance but one that doesnt forget to be genuine and real, Danielles emotional transformation stirring, oftentimes powerful and ..
Movie Freak
2.5
Itd be hard to conceive of a movie more painstakingly comprised of dramatic filler.
Film School Rejects
3.8
She doesnt belong there, and neither does the quiet, repressed, virginal Clarke (Jeremy Dozier).
Dustin Put Man
4.0
Young Adult is the better film, but Dirty Girl has its charms as well, though theres an awful lot to overlook in both.
Ar Kansas Online
0.5
With luck, Temple will be able to get this movie expunged from her filmography, like a juvenile offense that is wiped from ones record when she comes ..
Hollywood And Fine
4.5
Growing up gay in 1980s Oklahoma could not have been easy, but writer director Abe Sylvia and the cast of his debut feature Dirty Girl make it look li ..
Straight
3.5
Thanks to Temple, Danielle isnt merely a slut that learns a lesson, rather a troubled teen who can have some fun while experiencing one heck of an arc ..
Shockya
4.5
Dozier, who resembles a slightly downscaled Nick Frost, makes his feature film debut here, and hes a sweet, cheery winner.
reason
2.0
Temple does turn whats essentially a magical hussy role into something more grounded and human. The rest of the cast isnt quite so lucky...
New York Time Out
2.5
Dirty Girl isnt nearly as messy or real or raw as it needs to be mostly its just grubby with shopworn familiarity and glammed up with too many pop son ..
MSN Movies
2.5
Its difficult to transition from mocking characters to begging for our empathy
New York Metro Mix
2.5
Dirty Girl broadcasts its intent to be edgy and subversive poking fun throughout at small town, conservative attitudes toward sex and morality without ..
Toronto Star
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