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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 09 Nov 2012

You may have never heard of Sean Baker, but he's one of the most astute and least sentimental chroniclers of life on the fringes working in…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 08 Nov 2012

It's a character study about faith in connectedness, with an unforced love for cross-generational companionship that's special indeed…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for The Playlist (3,871) on 08 Nov 2012

Starlet is an interesting effort from indie filmmaker Sean Baker (this is his fourth feature), and signals the arrival of Dree Hemingway as…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 08 Nov 2012

Jane's friendship with Sadie is the one thing that cuts through the numbness - though the film's so low-key, even emotional revelations feel…

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By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Nov 2012

The film works as a charming aesthetic exercise with its jerky camera and inadvertent cuts, as a contemplation on intergenerational female bonding…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 08 Nov 2012

The bright sun that blasts through Starlet, a thrillingly, unexpectedly good American movie about love and a moral awakening, bathes everything…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for NPR (1,713) on 08 Nov 2012

Starlet shows enough of her unbalanced, unsustainable situation to make sense of her connection to Sadie, however frail a ballast her new friend…

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By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Nov 2012

Starlet is an unusually subtle, quiet character study - especially given the potentially salacious subject matter - that builds to a quietly…

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By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

Director Sean Baker, co-writing his fourth feature with Chris Bergoch, does some deft balancing of his own: His genuine admiration for these…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 06 Nov 2012

Dree Hemingway, daughter of Mariel, commits to some unnecessary nudity, but also impresses with her subtlety…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 04 Nov 2012

A mismatched-friends drama whose overall sensitivity is belied by a couple of clumsily contrived plot points, Sean Baker's Starlet pairs story…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 04 Nov 2012

Though named after a party girl's pet Chihuahua, Starlet could just as easily describe the two exceptional first-timers making their debuts…

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By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 10 Oct 2012

Both Hemingway and Johnson give solid, believable performances and one could guess that even if Baker & Bergoch's script didn't feel as natural…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 04 Oct 2012

The story retains an inscrutable tone that sometimes makes its emotional qualities feel remote, but it still delivers a powerful message about…

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