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

| Aug 28, 2019

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

Fanning -- a startlingly alert and microemotive young actress -- breathes real feeling into the part, while the jazz soundtrack (John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Sidney Bechet) rouses this sensitive film from its drowsier inclinations.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2013

Potter's take on the '60s occasionally slides into Big Chill cliché, but with her actors, she's on virgin ground.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 30, 2013

Coming from anyone else, Ginger & Rosa would be a sensitive if predictable coming-of-age tale set in the mists of the distant past. But coming from writer-director Sally Potter, it's a major surprise.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2013

Fanning is nearly perfect as Ginger navigates choppier waters than most teens have to. There is not a false note in her performance; no matter how melodramatic things become, everything about Ginger remains genuine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 28, 2013

Elle Fanning is scary. Scarily good.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 28, 2013

In all respects, this is the completely captivating Fanning's picture.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2013

Potter has a rich compositional eye, but she wisely trims the fat from the dialogue, which dances around most of the melodrama until an explosive last act.

| Mar 28, 2013

What hurt, nuanced terror and exhilaration there is in Sally Potter's beautiful coming-of-age drama Ginger & Rosa.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 22, 2013

Like Terence Davies's work, this is less about storytelling than immersing viewers in the minute details of an era -- what one of the film's characters describes as "the poetry of confinement."

| Mar 22, 2013

Fanning, so ethereal yet fragile in "Somewhere" and so instinctive in "Super 8," was actually younger than her character while filming this, but she brings so much combined innocence and authority to the role, it's never noticeable.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 22, 2013

In Potter's assured, caring hands, "the personal is political" assumes newfound breadth, depth and surprising emotional poignancy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2013

Whether it's memoir or personalized fiction, Ginger & Rosa displays a shrewd understanding of late adolescence-a time when every emotional slight lands like an atom bomb.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2013

Sally Potter's twin interests - in grand world movements and in the grand internal movements in people lives - are effectively brought to bear in "Ginger & Rosa," her best film of the decade.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2013

Elle's acting feels artless and naive, and all the more powerful for it. Fanning easily convinces you of Ginger's emotional reality - that every moment is the only moment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2013

You sense that this pale, growing-up-too-fast girl at its center will one day be a poet; finding words to convey what she can't yet say.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2013

The film's tone is wonderfully maintained by Dakota Fanning's younger sister Elle as Ginger, convincingly playing 17 at the age of 13.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2013

"Ginger and Rosa" is the filmmaker's most accessible and technically surefooted work to date.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 16, 2013

Packs an impressive amount of personal and political history into a wispy 90 minutes of screen time.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2013