Tamara Jenkins' feature debut as a director and as a screenwriter [with certain autobiographical excerpts] is a dramatic comedy that is contagious to me. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 24, 2020

Dark comedy about family dysfunction; sex, drugs, cursing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2017

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

Funny, well acted comedy from a new director whose career shuld be watched

| Original Score: B- | Mar 26, 2009

...a slight movie but a brave one

Full Review | Original Score: 87/100 | Nov 25, 2007

Uneven but filled with flashes of painful insight into the pitfalls awaiting adolescent girls.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 12, 2007

Though hypocritical in the way it sensationalizes sexuality, this serious and funny 1998 movie about a 15-year-old coming to terms with her body and her family in 1976 is, refreshingly, never coy or ironic.

| Jan 12, 2007

A small film with plenty of incidental pleasures, writer/director Jenkins' debut feature puts a winning new spin on the adolescent comedy-drama.

| Jun 24, 2006

Aside from Corrigan, there is nothing that I can recommend about it.

| Original Score: D | Apr 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2004

not as bad as the title makes it sound

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 12, 2003

Not much humor here. The statement about white trash is lost in an incest subplot. Just a mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2003

A marvelous, fresh new coming-of-age comedy-drama, one that breathes fresh new life into the genre.

| Original Score: B | May 22, 2003

Intelligent, humorous and thoroughly poignant, this can easily hold its own with the best comedies of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 14, 2003

Terrific performances from Alan Arkin and Natasha Lyonne dominate this engrossing look at a financially strapped Jewish family trying to survive despite their penury.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2003

Lyonne is a natural, and clearly a young actress to watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2002

Refreshingly real.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2002