It takes a while to get used to the coarseness of the ladette banter but there’s a refreshing sense that these girls don’t feel judged, even when their vulnerability peaks through.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2024

Our Ladies is an awful lot of fun. It’s tremendously well-acted, rebellious and hilarious, with one of the most relatable and genuine group of characters put to screen for a long while

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2023

An entertaining but misguided attempt at capturing teenage sexual fever...an uneven and disappointing viewing experience.

| Jul 27, 2023

It's bawdy fun, and there are certainly some laughs. However, I have an issue with this story being told by men.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 2, 2021

Our Ladies should have been a roaring success, but succeeds only moderately. It's fun, for sure, but it's not the uproarious comedy triumph that we were waiting for.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2021

An awful lot of beautifully acted, freewheeling fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2021

For all its good-natured boisterousness, there is the sense that director Michael Caton-Jones is straining to get the tone just-so.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2021

It's often the company one keeps that makes a journey worthwhile, not the destination. That's as true for the five ebullient Fort William schoolgirls making their first trip to Edinburgh in Our Ladies as it is for the film's audience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2021

The complex and layered friendship between the group of girlfriends resonates.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2021

There is a lot to like here - but there's no escaping how dated some of the material is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2021

What's ultimately so joyous about Our Ladies is all the small ways they rebel against their circumstances - while the world wants them to focus on the destination of their lives, they've chosen to revel in the journey.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2021

Teenage sexuality is a deeper, tricker subject in 2021 than this whoopee cushion of a film seems to think. Which isn't to say that you can't get a kick out of the fun its ensemble of young actresses palpably had making it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2021

Cheerfully knockabout...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2021

A loving tribute to uncensored working-class women. An acutely written and performed triumph.

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

Our Ladies is delightful and fun, full of youthful energy and boldness. It's playful and joyous, but also just a little sad in its looking back at a simpler time.

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

An occasionally ragged but mostly endearing watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2021

A movie of unusual energy and spark, watching this comedy drama is like opening a window to a stolen moment in time: a monumental day in the coming-of-age of five teenage girls.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 11, 2021

Our Ladies comes across as a movie version of what men think naughty Catholic school girls should be like ... [It's] entertaining overall, but it doesn't ring true when it blatantly omits certain details and nuances of female friendships.

| Jun 21, 2021

Has a vein of truth running throughout as it paints a convincing portrait of female friendship.

| Mar 9, 2020

What Derry Girls and Our Ladies share is a big, beating generous heart and a genuine affection, make that love, for young women at the point in their lives when they are at their most brave.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2020