Girlhood is vital, a reminder that there is so much more to be said, so much more beauty and complexity to be explored, in the coming-of-age story.

| Sep 13, 2022

This French coming-of-age film feels honest and real.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 2, 2021

One of the many things I really like about Girlhood is how Sciamma's script manages to avoid all the 'urban genre trappings' while managing to see the affecting, clear-eyed coming-of-age narrative through.

| Feb 14, 2021

Girlhood is a very unique film that gives the viewer much to reflect on about the experiences of young black girls in Paris.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2021

[Celine] Sciamma is unflinching in her depiction of the physical, emotional and sociological warfare of adolescence - specifically, female adolescence.

| Oct 23, 2019

Girlhood stands as a singular, rarely-seen through a female-centric lens, a film about a disenfranchised group of teenage Black girls.

| Aug 6, 2019

Sciamma's latest is an adrenaline shot of socially aware filmmaking that's an invigorating and perspicacious exploration of adolescence.

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

[Céline] Sciamma is at her best when the girls are alone together and also as in her earlier films when her characters seem to be exploring their sexual orientation and gender expression.

| Mar 8, 2019

Set in the lower class suburbs of France, Girlhood is as much an emotional journey as it is a visual one and a satisfying film from beginning to end.

| Nov 8, 2018

In this working-class setting, Sciamma conveys with naturalistic immediacy, it's their gender that renders them second-class citizens.

| Aug 22, 2018

Girlhood shines a poignant light on black female friendship, and the presence of violence feels like an unfortunate attempt at projecting racial verisimilitude. What's far more interesting is the sight of these four girls enjoying each other's company.

| Jun 26, 2018

This is a simple, clean film and (apart from the clumpy English title) very good.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2018

The complicated truth expressed in Girlhood is that it's often a survivor's strength that forges identities and occupations condemned by the rest of society-not weakness or hormonal confusion

| Aug 17, 2017

A robust, forceful depiction this is of a type of personal story that gets virtually no screen time.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 10, 2016

Symptomatic of the national picture, Girlhood is an unflinching portrait into the seething cauldron of interminable chaos created by the fractured social structures in contemporary Paris.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2016

Compassionate, profound and pertinent...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 25, 2016

Girlhood captures how wonderful it is to even briefly belong.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2016

[Marieme] has a long road into the seemingly inescapable marginalization of poor young black women ahead of her. But Girlhood offers some hope that the fleeting moments remain.

| Jan 1, 2016

More in common with the French New Wave than Italian neorealism, this is a film that both celebrates and sheds tears over gansta life. It is the French version of "New Jack City" in some ways.

| Dec 30, 2015

Girlhood stands on its own as a thoughtful, nonjudgmental look at a lost teen who finds definition over the course of a few rocky months.

| Dec 21, 2015