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Review of by Roger Ebert for Chicago Sun-Times — 08 Aug 2002

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The phrase "coming of age," when applied to movies, almost always implies sex, but Girls Can't Swim has nothing useful to say about sex (certainly not compared to Catherine Breillat's brilliant "Fat Girl" from last year), and is too jerky in structure to inspire much empathy from us.

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This review of Girls Can't Swim (2000) was written by and published by Chicago Sun-Times on 08 Aug 2002.

Girls Can't Swim has generally received mixed reviews.

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