The nostalgia for youth is a powerful lure, but All This Panic's greatest appeal is in the entertaining, empathetic and warm way these personal sagas are told.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2019

Captures an innocence, normalcy, and authenticity that this age group rarely earns from documentary.

| Feb 9, 2018

Director Jenny Gage, obviously cares about what teenage girls think and feel - and she wants viewers to, as well.

| Dec 19, 2017

On top of being entertaining, illuminating, and affecting, the film is beautifully shot -- with gorgeous, hazy light and painterly framing -- it looks like a narrative feature.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 12, 2017

It's a documentary that should make audiences smile. Although the teenage subjects might be over it, there is a need for All This Panic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 27, 2017

Powerful, edgy docu about teen girls growing up in NYC.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2017

It makes us realize that, regardless of which generation we belong to, we all go through the same growing pains.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 17, 2017

There is honesty in All This Panic that is both relatable and somewhat shocking, and for female viewers in their 20s and 30s especially, these girls are recognizable and sympathetic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2017

There are moments when the effort looks more like an acting reel than a non-fiction odyssey into juvenile decision-making.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 13, 2017

All This Panic is a movie that captures the spirit of being a young woman on the verge.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 7, 2017

Beautifully shot -- the girls' constantly-changing hair colors are often a focal point -- All This Panic is a quiet, often-heartbreaking reminder of what it's like to be a teenage girl.

| Apr 4, 2017

We witness these girls, offhanded, in the moment of becoming women, in an alienated yet hyper-connected culture, stubborn against a succession of sensations in a sea of Instagrams, of societal expectations. [A] brief but compelling dispatch.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 31, 2017

The result is a pensive, gorgeous meditation on what it means to grow up.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 31, 2017

[Filmmakers Jenny Gage and Tom Betterton] got close to them as Brooklyn neighbors and spent three years following them as they matured and began to separate from parents and forge their own identities.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 31, 2017

A timely documentary about the coming-of-age of seven adolescent girls in Brooklyn.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 31, 2017

Adopting a meandering, free-flowing structure and woozily intimate photography, the director, Jenny Gage, and her husband, the cinematographer Tom Betterton, follow close and listen well.

| Mar 30, 2017

All This Panic feels very short at 79 minutes, but that's quite appropriate for a film which takes seriously the way 17-year-olds can feel nostalgia for their youth.

| Mar 30, 2017

Gage makes each minute boldly and deeply matter.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 30, 2017

A composite portrait of girlhood, refracted - not especially rich in groundbreaking insight, but often shimmering with feeling.

| Mar 29, 2017

It's able to find the meaning in these fleeting moments of happiness and heartbreak that, collectively, form the experience of growing up.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 29, 2017