The film simply opts for cheap lyrical reconciliation and a shrug.

| Aug 28, 2019

The story's emotional vortex gives both Marx and Freud and run for their money.

| Aug 14, 2019

While it does manage to feature an outstanding lead performance, there's a frumpy sense of dissociation from the proceedings, devoid of kitchen sink realism even as it plunges into domestic drama fussies towards its muted finale.

| Aug 6, 2019

Potter's film lacks enough heart, passion and sincerity to effectively resonate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2019

The major events in the film are foreshadowed within the story, but the characters often do not do as you'd predict (or hope). The excellent character-driven narrative is propelled by skillful performances that envelope the audience.

| Dec 14, 2018

Director Sally Potter cares deeply about Ginger, an innocent about to lose it -- it's all over the way she captures her on camera.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 14, 2018

She was aiming for a masterpiece, but instead Ms. Potter has made a slightly underdeveloped poem full of raging emotions it doesn't quite know what to do with.

| Aug 10, 2018

With Ginger & Rosa, Potter once again documents the usually lonely road a woman takes in finding out who she really is, this time showing it from the perspective of someone who isn't even a woman yet.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2017

You won't find many movies about teenage girls more perceptive than Ginger & Rosa by the English filmmaker Sally Potter.

| Jul 13, 2017

After a career defined by cinematic experimentation, director Sally Potter trades affectation and stylistic experimentation for not-so-simple intimacy and empathy, helped of course by rich performances from her cast, young and not-so-young.

| Apr 10, 2016

Anchored by a brilliant performance from young Elle Fanning, who renders the usual teen angst and disillusionment as something both deeply felt and oddly mysterious. The kid is a natural.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2015

Ginger and Rosa is a small flick that reminds audiences how exciting it is to see raw and sincere performances despite what kind of package they're delivered in

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 7, 2014

Fanning's illuminating, naturalistic performance...is the best reason to see the movie

| Jun 27, 2014

Much of the night work,especially candlelit, puts "Ginger & Rosa" in the fashion of a memory piece rather than an objective history.But, as in all of Potter's work, it is an estimable and lush solution to the most minimal of budgets.

| Apr 9, 2014

As good as the movie is performance-wise, [director Sally] Potter allows the pacing to drag frequently, meaning viewers must be patient with Ginger & Rosa.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 30, 2013

The complexity of the characters and the simplicity of the story balance out to a rewarding coming-of-age drama for adults.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2013

With a rich sense of lived experience, Potter first portrays the blithe excitement and sense of joyful conspiracy shared by the two friends.

| Jun 14, 2013

...probably Potter's most accessible movie to date, but the script is perhaps nothing special ...

| Original Score: 86/100 | Apr 26, 2013

Nuclear anxiety becomes a distraction from teenage pressures and a projection of potentially explosive emotional distress in this beautifully acted character drama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 19, 2013

The gifted Elle Fanning turns in an extraordinary performance, although Sally Potter's film is otherwise built on a flimsy, soap-opera story.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 19, 2013