Despite some pacing problems, Sichel draws first-rate performances from her cast. Credit must also go to screenwriter Sylvia Sichel, Alex's sister, for creating such interesting characters.

| Jun 7, 2022

Scrupulously realistic and acutely observed.

| Apr 18, 2022

The movie documents the nuances in girl friendship at a fragile age that sometimes revels in syrupy, afterschool special type drama. But it's a gay, riot grrrl-light teen flick.

| Dec 9, 2021

All Over Me is a poignant coming-of-age film that focuses on some of the sadder facets of growing up and discovering yourself.

| Oct 8, 2019

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

Though the main charcater is lesbian, Sichel's gritty youth melodrama is so rich in ideas amd so roght in its texture that it goes beyond a coming-out ot even a lesbian-themed story.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

transcends its occasional operatic moments by providing plenty of soft-spoken reality

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 28, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2003

This picture should be required viewing for all teens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Given great lyrical force by Folland, it comes closer to unlocking the secret lives of girls than any other recent American movie.

Full Review | Oct 3, 2002

Foland ... gives a marvelously expressive, poignant performance as Claude.

| Jan 9, 2002

Sichel is just great with her cast.

| Feb 14, 2001

It succeeds beautifully at capturing the inner life of girls.

| Jan 1, 2000

Its blunt reprocessing of contemporary sacred cows in film realism ... rings false, the work of a user opting out of the imagination business.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Reveals the adolescence most everyone went through (or witnessed) but no one talks about.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A confident first feature.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

This is not new territory, but it is a completely new exploration of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Alex and Sylvia Sichel have taken a familiar coming-of-age story, something that might work as an Afterschool Special, and given it the contour, grit and white-hot energy of something much more.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000