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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 31 Aug 2016

Good-looking but tonally dubious feature debut from Elizabeth Wood…

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By Abbey Bender (99) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Aug 2016

This is one of those films that merits a long cold shower afterwards. That might actually be a compliment — Wood wants to provoke…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 31 Aug 2016

A wild nightmare of girlhood in New York City, a compendium of the miseries and ecstasies of being female…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Aug 2016

Ultimately, Wood doesn’t have much time to treat the romance between Leah and Blue with any more depth than the characters…

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By Jen Yamato (145) for The Daily Beast (380) on 30 Aug 2016

A ferocious debut from writer-director Elizabeth Wood... a bold and brash cautionary tale filled with a lifetime's worth of terrible decisions…

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By Erin Whitney (65) for ScreenCrush (954) on 29 Aug 2016

Unafraid to expose her character's weaknesses and degradation, White Girl establishes Wood as a brazen new talent to watch…

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By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Aug 2016

It's an entertaining and unapologetic tale of female risk-taking, filled with clever camerawork, but the characters remain shallow…

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By E. Oliver Whitney (111) for ScreenCrush (954) on 29 Aug 2016

Unafraid to expose her character's weaknesses and degradation, White Girl establishes Wood as a brazen new talent to watch…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for indieWire (3,631) on 28 Aug 2016

Elizabeth Wood’s fire-breathing debut is an adrenalized shot of ecstasy and entitlement, a fully committed cautionary tale that’s able…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 28 Aug 2016

The movie persuasively depicts the appallingly casual reduction of a woman’s body to a commodity and the oppressive inequalities of a justice…

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By Leslie Felperin (768) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 19 Feb 2016

Seductive and repellent by turns, it’s a title that will provoke fierce love-or-hate reactions, but there’s no question it augurs the arrival…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 19 Feb 2016

[Saylor] grows up in a big way here, pouring body and soul into an intense, unflinching story of a 19-year-old descending into an urban nightmare…

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By Monica Castillo (380) for The Playlist (3,871) on 19 Feb 2016

Perhaps what makes White Girl so divisive is its insistence on facing head on issues about the justice system, gentrification, power dynamics,…

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By Andrew Crump (271) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Feb 2016

It’s exciting as a raw, provocative, and vividly realized cinema of sensation…

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By Lanre Bakare (20) for The Guardian (2,969) on 17 Feb 2016

Buttons will definitely be pushed by White Girl, but after the moral panic hopefully people will still be talking about the film itself…

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By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 Feb 2016

I admire the tenacity and fearlessness of Wood to take on these issues head-on…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 17 Feb 2016

As much as White Girl has to offer in raw immediacy, it lacks the distance to offer much in the way of meaningful commentary, distinguishing…

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