This is a heroic film, realized with much devotion and little presumptions. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 18, 2024

There is no wrong or right choice. There is only her choice. Independence is the key word in Girlfriends. Then there is sisterhood.

| Jan 9, 2024

Calling Girlfriends a promising directorial debut only seems to damn it and its maker with faint praise. It is promising in the same sense that Francis Coppola's 1968 The Rain People and Steven Spielberg's 1974 Sugarland Express were promising.

| May 18, 2023

The story is an old one... But the theme underlying Girlfriends is much more absorbing: the quality and the element of luck in friendship.

| May 18, 2023

Bring no preconceived notions to Girlfriends, a riveting first feature from director Claudia Weill that is a comedy, a social drama and a dead-center portrait of the 1970s.

| May 18, 2023

[Girlfriends] hasn't a plot, hasn't a message, hasn't drama. What is so surprising is how vitally it does succeed.

| May 18, 2023

Girlfriends is a film whose parts are bigger than its whole, an imperfect film that succeeds almost in spite of itself.

| May 18, 2023

Girlfriends is a unique experience: a wry and unflinching presentation of contemporary women facing up to universal conflicts and, for better or worse, making their own decisions.

| May 18, 2023

Girlfriends is easily the year's most sensitive, most profound, most moving in its handling of the female theme. It is funny and sad, cloying yet comforting -- and sentimental without ever being saccharine.

| May 18, 2023

Watching these two come to grips with the ghosts they've left in each other's lives is alternately exhilarating and devastating, but ultimately deeply satisfying.

| May 18, 2023

[The] story of Susan Weinblatt is filled with charming touches that only personal experiences can provide -- and only a sensitive director can translate to film.

| May 17, 2023

Melanie Mayron is the center of the movie, visible almost continuously, and her performance is extraordinarily fine and right. It is a reading of such spontaneity and naturalness as to conceal its superbly disciplined professionalism.

| May 17, 2023

The phenomenon is all too rare: a film that seems too short rather than too long, a film that makes you want more and leaves you feeling that you would like to see it all over again next week.

| May 17, 2023

Girlfriends' accent is definitely not on action, and this account of the strained relationship of two roommates can get downright sluggish at times. Nevertheless, Weill does succeed in creating a very believable drama.

| May 17, 2023

A film which is awfully easy to like: often funny, always moving and absolutely without airs.

| May 17, 2023

Everyone in Girlfriends is so self-effacing that the movie never works up any convincing dramatic tension or provocative ideas. If that was Weill's original plan, she has gone to a lot of unnecessary trouble.

| May 17, 2023

The realistic atmosphere of Girlfriends may be pleasing, but the situations it embellishes are utterly conventional.

| May 17, 2023

Whatever its passing faults, Girlfriends is finally a warm and likable film, which presents a credible feeling of the world and abounds in subtle pictorial and emotional effects.

| May 17, 2023

It's the first starring role for Melanie Mayron and the very first movie for Anita Skinner. It may be that nobody got around to telling them they were portraying characters and not people. Let's hope nobody ever gets around to telling them.

| May 17, 2023

Melanie Mayron's portrayal of Susan is so real that it hurts... We've seen Mayron before, but not in a major role, and she's wonderfully persuasive.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 17, 2023