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

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

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

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

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

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

There's no judgment to be found here, only an unvarnished look at its subjects struggling to figure out who they are, what they want, and how they might achieve their goals.

| Mar 29, 2017

Gage's singular, gendered focus is refreshing; simply offering these young women a platform in which to articulate their immature but still perceptive worldview carries some inherent value.

| Original Score: B | Mar 29, 2017

A wisp of a thing at 79 minutes, the film punches above its weight when it comes to quietly life-changing insights into the tricky business of growing up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2017

This intimate, revelatory documentary about the lives of seven teenage girls in Brooklyn, New York, was shot over three years by Jenny Gage and her cinematographer husband, Tom Betterton.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2017

You will, I promise, be profoundly moved.

| Mar 23, 2017

Affirms what we have suspected: fun in the social networking age - web one-upmanship, wars of esteem and self-esteem - has become fraught, even neurotic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 23, 2017

It may not tell you that much - or perhaps anything - new. But the girls' personalities come across with great clarity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2017

Compelling material that never quite comes of age.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 23, 2017

Yes, the premise is a bit threadbare but this is an intimate, lyrical documentary that offers a subtly effective snapshot of life as a young woman on the threshold of adulthood.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2017

More remarkable for the way it looks than the actual, somewhat banal, girl-talk content.

| Oct 17, 2016

All This Panic will make you feel all the feels-excitement, confusion, sadness, anger, pining, and certainly all this panic-and heighten them to teen levels.

Full Review | Apr 29, 2016

It's a marvelous, absorbing film, with truth vibrating through frame after frame.

| Apr 26, 2016