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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Nov 2012

The plotline is unpromising - young porn actress befriends crotchety old lady - and the setup is underwhelming…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 29 Nov 2012

The film is about as indie as indie movies get, with a homemade, washed-out look that drives home the genuineness of the performances…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 29 Nov 2012

Sean Baker's amiably oblique Starlet finds fresh ways to tell a familiar story…

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By Kelly B (807) on 27 Nov 2012

This is one of those movies, like Drive, where style gets in the way of plot a bit…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 22 Nov 2012

Convincing performances from Hemingway and the charmingly crabby Johnson and an unhurried pace ensure that Baker's film achieves its modest goals…

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By John K (1,706) on 20 Nov 2012

With an odd mix of comedy, drama, and pessimism this film is more real and moving than any studio flick you'll see in 2012 and serves as an…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 20 Nov 2012

Sean Baker's singular little ultra-indie is a strikingly unsentimental study in female friendship between unmoored souls in L.A.'s bleached,…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 16 Nov 2012

The relationship is the best thing about the film, which otherwise feels hopelessly sad and tawdry…

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By J. Hoberman (756) for ARTINFO.com (2) on 15 Nov 2012

As its title suggests, Starlet is a Hollywood story, albeit one that Hollywood would not be likely to produce…

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By J M (910) on 14 Nov 2012

PLEASE don't waste your time or money. Lives up to all of its zero ambitions. Jammed with indie clichés. Nothing of value…

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By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for Nerdist (550) on 14 Nov 2012

unlike so many deconstructions of the Hollywood dream that show the darkness beneath, Starlet does that and still lets us keep dreaming…

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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 10 Nov 2012

Hemingway gives her naïf substance and Johnson turns her crone into a caring mother-figure…

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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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