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By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 27 Aug 2015

Heller and her cast find too many piercingly honest moments for the movie ever to feel like a wallow in exploitation…

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By Kristian M. Lin (336) for Fort Worth Weekly (325) on 27 Aug 2015

The Diary of a Teenage Girl locates all the good and bad things that sex does for its main character and sends her out into the world wiser for it…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 27 Aug 2015

Powerful, exhausting, ecstatic, twisted and unerringly honest, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a rare film indeed, a look at a young girl's…

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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 27 Aug 2015

Although Heller's debut does have some stylistic flourishes, this is not an exercise in style, but a refreshingly honest film, both funny and…

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By Bill Brownstein (38) for Montreal Gazette (210) on 26 Aug 2015

Credit Heller for keeping proceedings in perspective and for delivering one of the most candid accounts of the teen odyssey…

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By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 26 Aug 2015

One wrong move could have thrown the whole movie off, but Powley gets it right again and again. And so does the cast and crew…

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By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 26 Aug 2015

Directed by Heller with a winningly light touch, The Diary of a Teenage Girl doesn't aim to shock, but neither does it play for laughs…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 25 Aug 2015

The Diary of a Teenage Girl is the rare movie that presents the subject of the loss of virginity from the female perspective…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 25 Aug 2015

A funny, sad and ultimately triumphant coming-of-age story…

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By Ken Eisner (445) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 24 Aug 2015

The superbly acted film, which won the best-cinematography award at this year's Sundance festival, is a dreamlike -- and sometimes quietly…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 22 Aug 2015

The film is achingly apt in the ways it captures Minnie's intense emotions…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 21 Aug 2015

A sensitive, emotionally candid sexual awakening…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Deadline Hollywood Daily (332) on 20 Aug 2015

Way overrated when it played Sundance, if this disappointing and dreary film presents one of the most unappealing ensembles of characters I…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 20 Aug 2015

specific to its setting but features a character whose neuroses and self-esteem issues will resonate…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Aug 2015

[Not] played for cynical misanthropic laughs or as miserable tragedy, but...[in] an honest treatment devoid of the usual rush to judgment…

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By Dee Jefferson (1) for Junkee (216) on 19 Aug 2015

Marielle Heller's screen adaptation (which was first a stage adaptation) is suitably warts-and-all, corporeal, and morally complicated -- everything…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 19 Aug 2015

Writer/director Marielle Heller, in her captivating debut film The Diary of a Teenage Girl, hits exactly the right tone for a complicated balancing…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 19 Aug 2015

The heroine’s voice-overs, delivered into the microphone of a Bell & Howell tape recorder in Minnie’s bedroom, are the movie’s motor…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 19 Aug 2015

An honest and personal and unblurred examination (even through that druggy blur) of a tricky voyage into womanhood…

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By Kristin Tillotson (85) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 19 Aug 2015

The Diary of a Teenage Girl is as rewarding as it is squirm-inducing for its honesty, audacity and artful portrayal of adolescence from a girl's…

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