As heavy as Cusp mostly is, the main subjects emerge on the other side of their bad experiences, and its actually remarkable seeing them changenot just physically but emotionally as wellbefore our eyes.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 17, 2022

Had the focus been more interesting, this is clearly a team that could have made something really special. As is, Cusp remains a rather forgettable and surprisingly hollow feature for what felt so promising.

| Feb 22, 2022

It's actually a horror movie if you're a parent. This is terrifying.

| Dec 1, 2021

In this mesmerizing, revelatory and deeply compassionate film, viewers are left with an indelible impression of girlhood at its most precarious and indomitable.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 24, 2021

While Cusp isn't easy viewing, it documents the harsh reality that rigid gender expectations cause real harm to young people.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 23, 2021

[Cusp's] conclusions are neither arrived at through such restrictive channels as libertine abandon and awareness ex nihilo, nor telescoped toward eventual wholeness, for that matter.

| Nov 23, 2021

Daring documentary can be a lot to digest, but it is also topical and explores a side of America that is talked about without really being known.

| Nov 22, 2021

Cusp is "a sympathetic vignette about navigating that window where you're more grown-up than you're quite ready to be."

| Nov 15, 2021

Cusp, with its dreamy imagery of golden sunsets and thunder-y twilights, empty Dairy Queen parking lots, and birds taking flight, is a mood-driven piece of work, sensitive to landscape and environment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2021

This verité documentary effectively captures the turbulence of contemporary adolescence and sisterhood even if it lacks broader depth or meaningful insight.

| Nov 12, 2021

A portrait of modern girlhood, this documentary ultimately becomes a bleak look at the normalization of sexual abuse among the very victimized young women.

| Nov 11, 2021

In walking the line between asking empathy for these girls and also using them as a sort of cautionary tale, Cusp fails to offer more than a somewhat surface-level understanding of toxic masculinity.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 11, 2021

It's a strategy that pays off. It's a film distinctly of its era-it's hard to imagine this one being made before the seismic revelations of the MeToo moment-and a new chapter in a genre that never gets old.

| Jun 29, 2021

A stunningly crafted documentary, Cusp's narrative expresses both the fear and hope of girls who are on the verge of embarking on their adult lives.

| Jun 24, 2021

The filmmakers fail their subjects by trading meaningful discussions for jaw-dropping, exploitative shock value.

| Mar 13, 2021

These stories are, of course, important. We need to hear and believe young girls about the daily horrors they live with. But how much detail is too much?

| Feb 18, 2021

An intentionally discursive and lyrical ramble.

| Feb 15, 2021

Audiences looking to learn about how young women get and keep their confidence should pay attention.

| Feb 15, 2021

Cusp is a little staggering and incredibly beautiful... It's to Cusp's credit that there's still a sense of magic and possibility throughout the film, as if the girls have some hope for their futures.

| Feb 10, 2021

Imagine Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides or Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang in documentary form, and you will get a sensory taste of this near-surreal, sun-dappled, angst-ridden gem.

| Feb 10, 2021