Schloss and Lynskey deliver heart wrenching performances in this strikingly femme-centric film which shoots an arrow right into the heart of domestic disruption that results from faraway wars.

| Oct 11, 2021

Melanie Lynskey and John Gallagher Jr. are two of the most gifted actors in film, and the roles they have in Sadie allow them to fully inhabit characters who are imperfect but good-hearted and very real.

| Oct 11, 2021

Griffiths, like Summers, has a gift for portraying the working poor without judgment or condescension. Add Sadie the movie and the book to your to-see/to-read lists this autumn.

| Oct 11, 2021

The character is often difficult to like, but Schloss' focus and follow through are undeniable.

| Oct 11, 2021

The movie doesn't hit as hard as it should since Griffiths strikes such a monotonously grim tone and the performances aren't very convincing.

| Mar 3, 2020

Sadie, the character, represents a cross-section of Americans on the edge of becoming a cult via blind faith in their country's military.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2019

As a portrait of adolescent angst, "Sadie" doesn't offer any new insights.

| Apr 4, 2019

Disquieting and deeply moving, Sadie takes its story to extreme lengths while still feeling utterly grounded in the emotional reality of its characters. It's not an easy watch, but it's worth it.

| Oct 20, 2018

"Plays as a kind of dark, slightly unreal fairy tale-like a Roald Dahl yarn where the kids take things just a little too far for comfort."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 19, 2018

Its honesty and power makes it feel large; you live among these characters in their weary trailer park, aching for them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 17, 2018

Schloss owns "Sadie" in a finely-tuned performance of a girl learning her own power and the consequences of her actions.

| Oct 15, 2018

An ultimately imbalanced, slow, and a coming-of-age tale that is deeply flawed

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 15, 2018

This tale of a teenaged girl's crossing the boundary from childhood to too-early adulthood, simultaneously a portrait of a society quietly yet inexorably collapsing, has a disturbing power that sneaks up on you.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 13, 2018

Sadie solely serves as a breakout performance from Sophia Mitri Schloss, who utterly disappears in the lead role.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 13, 2018

It's a moving meditation on the consequences of brutish escapism.

| Oct 12, 2018

Sadie shares its protagonist's most defining attribute-a frustratingly manipulative nature.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 12, 2018

[T]here's considerable tension in wondering what other lines [Sadie] may be willing to cross, in the futile hope of keeping her broken family together.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2018

Lacks the gritty, grounded specificity that might begin to answer the thorny questions it conjures up.

| Oct 11, 2018

You're likely to believe Sadie more than you believe "Sadie."

| Oct 11, 2018

Sadie might seem simple but it lingers.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 11, 2018