It's an interesting story, based on actual events.

| Original Score: A | Sep 12, 2017

Does it matter that every time Jolie's offscreen the film wilts a little? Ryder should be perfect as the bright spark; her lines are sharp as a knife. There's a gap, however, between what we hear and what we see.

| Jun 24, 2006

A muddled production that misses the jarring tone of the autobiographical book by Susanna Kaysen on which it is based. The film is entertaining, but not very powerful.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2002

You're left wishing the film had a little more faith in its audience, for then this well-put-together movie might have provoked more thought, and slightly less irritation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 3, 2001

Sensitive, well-acted.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The best work [Ryder's] ever done.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It's an odd mixture of an unsentimental, darkly humorous take on mental illness with the usual Hollywood loony-bin cliches.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Never engages the viewer at a gut level.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

As we take our mental health for granted, Girl, Interrupted does justice to those who ultimately can't.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Fiendishly feline Jolie is stressed to impress, but her efforts are foiled by a script that keeps her tiger caged.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

[Ryder] is often just a crumpled, listless figure on a bed, which, while true to the nature of depression, is not, cinematically speaking, the most arresting image.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Ample proof of both Ryder's commitment to this project and her easy dominance as above-the-title star.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Unsatisfying and unconvincing.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Ryder is no Jack Nicholson. And Whoopi Goldberg sure as hell ain't Louise Fletcher.

| Jan 1, 2000

You can drive yourself crazy, or you can get over it. The choice is yours.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Misses what was most engaging about Kaysen's memoir -- the unique sound of her voice, mostly drowned out here by too familiar attitudes and melodrama.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It has neither the clarity nor strength of purpose to engage an audience much beyond the converted.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Almost everyone here seems at least a little cartoonlike.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

If only the story of Susanna's evolution didn't keep getting interrupted by everything else.

| Jan 1, 2000