Girl is a powerful intimate portrait that gives us a window into the psychology of its protagonist. And while it reflects her most dramatic reality, it does so with restraint and with a sensational use of the camera. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 21, 2022

This is bleak, bloody and uncomfortable. It serves well as social commentary and succeeds on that level, but it refuses to let its protagonist simply be happy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2021

Girl is a very impressive debut feature film ... With devastating performances too, you'd have to have a heart of stone to remain unmoved.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2021

At first Girl is a positive outlook but soon shows its tragic undertones. Lukas Dhont gives an intimate story with what feels like a positive and realistic experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2020

Dhont has confidently elevated the typical coming-of-age story and thanks to Polster's wonderful performance, it is poignant as it is thoughtful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2019

In his first feature, Belgian writer/director Lukas Dhont has tightly packed a cinematic masterpiece into a topical powder keg.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 5, 2019

The talent of the director consists in exploring, with discretion and without a hint of moralism, the complexity of this psychological trance. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 12, 2019

What I found most interesting here was the father/daughter relationship, while the rest remains standardized and somewhat guessable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2019

This film makes a gentle point of the fact that transitioning isn't trouble-free even if most of the people around you are broadly sympathetic to the undertaking.

| Apr 3, 2019

Well worth seeing. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 25, 2019

Drama about transgender dancer has nudity, bullying.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2019

Unfortunately, despite strenuous pretenses of compassion, Girl's escalating obsessions reprise long histories of cruel, transphobic storytelling.

| Mar 21, 2019

A curiously unjust, myopic, even dangerous movie.

| Mar 19, 2019

The movie's fundamental sympathy for Lara is clear. It's channelled through a subtle performance from Victor Polster...and it shapes several tender and credible scenes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2019

Polster is quite astounding for every second he is on screen here.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2019

Monsecour's context makes Dohnt's direction, and Polster's performance, all the more remarkable for its subtlety and compassion. Just be ready to sit through a few rough scenes.

| Mar 18, 2019

A performance infused with great stillness and energy from actor/dancer Victor Polster drives Belgian director/co-writer Lukas Dhont's affecting if uneven coming-of-age tale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2019

Having seen the film, this cis critic certainly wouldn't claim to understand the reality of life as a trans person. It makes me want to, though.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2019

Girl is beautifully made: it's also an education.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 15, 2019

Even disregarding the controversy, Girl does not work, mainly because Dhont's focus is all wrong.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 15, 2019