While hardly enamored with Fat Girl, I was fine with it until its conclusion.

| Jan 5, 2021

[Features a] shocking, ambiguous ending.

| Apr 11, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Bold but unrelenting in its depiction of both physical and emotional aggression, Fat Girl will be bracing for those open to its challenges and brutal for those who aren't.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2003

A strange, discomfiting and fascinating film about the horrors of adolescence.

Full Review | Feb 24, 2003

It's compelling, honest, poignant, somewhat sad and, at the end, very disturbing -- in short, quite a good movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 24, 2003

This is not one of [Breillat's] better efforts.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | May 31, 2002

The characters come across with an unnerving sense of psychological realism and act as a flesh-and-blood foil to the allegorical story.

Full Review | Jan 24, 2002

A lovely minor achievement.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2002

Right up to its jarring final sequence, Fat Girl takes that cafe scene as the basis for a tragicomedy that plays out in delicately telling terms.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 11, 2002

Breillat has fashioned another characteristically raw and honest portrait of sexual relations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 17, 2001

[W]hen I saw this movie I was kind of mad at the way things had this arbitrary development ... That's what happens in real life. Things happen at random like that and I thought a lot about this movie after I saw it -- days afterwards, a week afterwards.

Full Review | Dec 3, 2001

Exposes the less sexy things that lust can awaken, like viciousness, deceit and amoral longing.

| Nov 30, 2001

Fat Girl is uncompromising and unforgiving, but ultimately more self-destructive than any of its characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 30, 2001

Get over the numb shock that accompanies the end credits, give yourself some distance from it and you may actually appreciate the complex machinations behind Breillat's brave, troubled work.

Full Review | Nov 26, 2001

Examines the world of budding female sexuality with a psychological precision that cuts to the core.

Full Review | Nov 26, 2001

Few movies have so effectively conveyed the alienation of adolescence, and the way children can be driven almost mad by their separation from life and love.

Full Review | Nov 24, 2001

There is a jolting surprise in discovering that this film has free will, and can end as it wants, and that its director can make her point, however brutally.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 24, 2001

Whether in anger or in awe, or some combination thereof, it will knock you for a loop.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2001