Very Good Girls

  • 2014


MOVIE IS noteworthy sentimental meandering disheartening extraordinary
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27 %
19 % Rotten
$ 0 Million
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Positive Reviews 9
Negative reviews 19
Average Rating 2.1/5
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3.0
The screenplay doesnt just serve the movies themes about young female friendship and loss of innocence; its subservient to them. Av Club
1.9
Will any film this year feature a moment more pretentious than David asking Lily to read a few lines of Sylvia Plaths poetry before their first kiss T .. Rogerebert
1.5
With a screenplay lacking the freshness and credibility of Foners best work, this all around misfire saddles a miscast group of name thesps with some .. Variety
1.5
Limp and insincere from bottom to top, Very Good Girls is especially frustrating in that its innate lousiness is more than even Fanning and Olsen can .. We Got This Covered
2.5
More disheartening than the unremarkable visual style is that the female leads arent given ample space to develop as dynamic characters beyond the mos ..
1.5
Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen are wasted in veteran screenwriter Naomi Foners underwhelming directing debut. The Hollywood Reporter
1.5
One insurmountable problem is that the stars, especially Ms. Olsen, 25, are too old for their roles. Another is that the movie has more characters tha .. The New York Times
2.4
Appreciably different and well acted throughout, and sincerely engaging in patches... ultimately succumbs to sigh inducing artificiality. Paste Magazine
1.5
As BFFs Lilly and Gerri, Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen have a convincing chemistry, even if Olsen doesnt quite pass as an inexperienced teen just out of ..
2.0
Disappointingly, Foners young heroines are defined primarily by their reactions to other people. Its a great credit to Olsen and, especially, Fanning .. Ny Daily News
3.8
Very Good Girls has a breezy yet bittersweet, vaguely nostalgic vibe. Philly
3.0
A difficult yet rewarding summer for a teenager getting ready to leave for college. Spirituality And Practice
1.5
Very Good Girls is a film one wants to like but cant. It just doesnt work. Village Voice
3.0
Girls reveals plenty of potential, but nothing gels as Foner imagines, making the feature appealing and honest, but only periodically. Blu Ray
1.9
She tries to seek revenge for something that she isnt certain happened, although Foner isnt above cheating with perspective to tease us with the possi .. Mark Reviews Movies
1.3
A drama that feels like an old persons idea of what young people are like. New York Post
1.5
More of a meandering, misguided path than a road to hell, Naomi Foners directing debut, starring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen as 18 year old BFF .. Film Journal International ..
1.5
In fact, its kind of a laughable way to establish that hes deep, or whatever hes supposed to be.)
3.0
Maybe I simply dont understand the impenetrably powerful dynamic of teenage girl friendship, but I needed more hostility all around. The Film Stage
1.9
The sort of narrow drama that acts as if theres only one guy who lives in New York and treats all creative pursuits as sacred and instantly moving. Red Eye Chicago
1.5
A superlative laden title suggests something thats on the nose sentimental, satire, or subversive irony. Very Good Girls is none of those things, and .. Film Racket
4.5
Though Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen are just too old to pull off playing graduating high schoolers, theyre more than entitled to a pass here for .. News Blaze
1.5
Because thats what you do for a grieving, despondent friend: try to get her laid with a guy she doesnt know youve stolen from her. The Dissolve
2.0
The actresses try all they can to breathe life into their poorly drawn characters, but there is little they can do with the uninspired material that t .. Straits Times
2.8
But Olsen gives a performance on her own thats compelling enough to keep watching, making this average film worth sitting through. Under The Radar Mag
3.0
Quite sensual and purposefully light, it avoids the trap of a shallow stupid comedy about the first time that it could have easily become. Movie Mezzanine
1.5
Unfortunately, theres nothing noteworthy whatsoever about any of the proceedings. Ion Cinema
2.5
Still, the film lacks the profound lens of an older, wiser soul looking back at this fractious time. Hollywood Into To
1.9
As a study of a friendship under duress, Very Good Girls doesnt fare much better. Am Ny
3.0
Very Good Girls is far from a perfect movie, but I enjoyed its spirit and atmosphere, even as I objected to some of the key elements. Technology Tell
1.5
Still, Very Good Girls is a good film and worth spending time with. Easy Reader News



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