This joyous gem brings Judy Blume’s classic novel vibrantly to life

| Mar 24, 2025

Kelly Fremon Craig’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is an honest and mature coming-of-age film, elevated by some truly fantastic performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2025

This warm wonderful film might still be set in the 70s but it feels just as relevant as Judy Blume's book did.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 11, 2024

I think that–just as Blume’s book deeply moved me when I read it last year, and impacted thousands before me–this kindness and open-mindedness in Craig’s adaptation of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret will also resonate across generations.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 31, 2024

Its impeccable filmmaking and hilarious entertainment factor are topped only by its remarkable lack of cynicism and boundless love for the characters.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 19, 2024

“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” never villainizes its characters because director and writer Kelly Fremon Craig avoids pat tropes.

| May 25, 2024

A wonderfully sweet adaptation of Judy Blume’s classic novel, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret delves into girlhood—with its epic firsts, discoveries, and lingering magic of childhood wonder...

| Apr 19, 2024

Never saccharine or contrived, it shows that life can be challenging, no matter what one’s age, but that it can still be good.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 16, 2024

In many ways, "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" works as a funny B-side to the fanaticism suffered by the Lisbon sisters, the victims of Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 27, 2024

What the film does well is to establish that, in the absence of larger problems, anxiety is refocused on smaller ones.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 12, 2024

Kelly Fremon Craig ('The Edge of Seventeen') was inarguably the right choice to adapt and direct.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2024

Kelly Fremon Craig's follow-up to her similarly exceptional The Edge of Seventeen.

| Jan 4, 2024

There are so many beautiful questions put underneath the cinematic microscope [in 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.'], and director Kelly Fremon Craig makes it all feel so natural and special.

| Jan 3, 2024

It’s a film that finds universality in specificity, and not just its perfect replication of ’70s-era fashion, furniture, and cars.

| Jan 3, 2024

It’s a deeply humanist film that quietly earns your affection.

| Dec 28, 2023

Its refusal to shy away from sensitive subject matters, coupled with brilliant performances from the lead cast, and a meticulously crafted script, results in a story that not only entertains with astute humor but also resonates on a deeply personal level.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 22, 2023

The resulting adaptation is a tender window into girlhood and family that slightly expands the scope of its source text without sacrificing any of its wisdom.

| Dec 22, 2023

Judy Blume’s landmark YA classic makes it to the screen five decades later, still packed with laughs and poignance and bitter truths and the enduring embarrassments of adolescence.

| Dec 20, 2023

Performances are all solid, the direction never draws attention to itself, and you end up relating and empathising with all the characters (especially, and logically, Margaret). Full review in Spanish.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2023

A great coming of age comedy, for a change.

| Original Score: A | Dec 10, 2023