Like many similar documentaries, this 2002 feature doesn't present easy answers, but by letting the two girls register as individuals, it forces the viewer to care about them when few around them can be bothered.

| Jul 18, 2007

Chilling, depressing, yet guardedly optimistic.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Girlhood thoughtfully questions not just the system itself, but our unfair assumptions about the young people caught within it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 8, 2005

To the film's great credit, [director] Garbus evens out her often heavy-hand and we're given the emotional core of two young female criminals in ways often eluded in the movies.

| Original Score: 75/100 | May 13, 2005

..disturbing, yet life affirming portrait ... girlhood is an early stage of life, but the consequences of mistakes upon womanhood and, more significantly, motherhood will ...

| Original Score: 3 | Jul 29, 2004

The trajectories of Shanae's and Megan's lives speak volumes for themselves.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 6, 2004

Deeply affecting in the moment, but I'm not sure that Garbus draws much in the way of larger conclusions.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 9, 2004

Fascinating and, at times, surprisingly moving.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 19, 2003

Girlhood begins as a document of criminal justice, and ends as a testament to the power of motherhood.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 19, 2003

Thanks to unprecedented access, acclaimed documentarian Liz Garbus is able to continue her upfront examination of the American criminal justice system.

| Nov 24, 2003

An eye-opening sociological examination that is alternately moving and tedious. Ultimately, however, one can't help but be caught up in the travails of its two memorable subjects.

Full Review | Nov 14, 2003

It isn't just difficult to do justice to Shanae and Megan in an average of 44 minutes apiece; as it turns out, it's impossible.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 13, 2003

It may be the least expected happy ending in years.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 4, 2003

Liz Garbus and company have skillfully captured raw emotions, something 'reality 온라인카지노추천' almost never does, and Girlhood offers two valuable case studies to its audience, however difficult it may be to watch them.

| Nov 3, 2003

While it is one part a coming-of-age story and one part a story of girls and mothers, Girlhood is just as much about the attainment of wisdom.

| Oct 31, 2003

In the end, the girls' stories are inspiring and heartbreaking, making this sensitively directed film one of the most rewarding of the year.

| Original Score: A | Oct 31, 2003

Seems like a summer camp, with inmates enjoying soda and snacks in virtually every scene.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 31, 2003

As grim as its subject may at first seem, Girlhood is at heart an emotionally rich look at mothers and their daughters, and provides a refreshing look at how 'the system,' flawed as it may be, can work.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 30, 2003

Detailed, compassionate, humane.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2003

It's one thing to watch the stylized Hollywood versions of troubled teens in films like Bully and Thirteen; it's another to witness the gritty reality.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 30, 2003