...a bitter, caustic but also very funny and wise film about how women have to deal with men’s vanities to eke out a living…has genuine insight to offer about how women might just about overcome a workplace system that’s clearly rigged in favour of men.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 27, 2024

The opening credits lets you know that the film is operating on a shoestring budget, but within five minutes I was already invested in this slice-of-life working class comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Who knew Hollywood could come up with a slice of middle America that isn’t a retread storyline and that comes from a fresh perspective.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2022

Support the Girls is a considerate and understated indie comedy, capable of drawing out empathy for women, whose situations are less than ideal, by giving them an intimately human face.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 11, 2022

Support the Girls is a meandering account of workplace etiquette that fastidiously documents the male gaze of its customers.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 25, 2021

Bujalski's female ensemble piece has a lot to say about economic instability and the working poor, while finding redemption in the small kindnesses that can make unpleasant, under-paid jobs bearable.

| Oct 15, 2020

Hall is fantastic as a woman maintaining an outwardly calm and unfailingly professional head while everything around her spins out of control.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2020

Support the Girls doesn't offend with its depiction of its subject matter. It commits a greater sin: it never acknowledges that these are issues at all.

| Jul 24, 2020

Like Lisa herself, Support the Girls is generous, gentle, and not to be taken for granted.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2020

The story meanders near the end, but the anticlimax can't quite dispel the movie's warm eccentricity.

| Mar 24, 2020

Leaving the cinema after Support the Girls, I felt different. I looked at the people around me differently, with a keener sense of empathy. The world felt somehow warmer. [TOP 50 FILMS OF THE DECADE]

| Dec 4, 2019

This is also another excellent example of Regina Hall just being brilliant. The more films I see with her in, the better.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2019

Overall, Support the Girls subtly celebrates sisterhood in the most unexpected place, with Regina Hall leading a diverse cast that delivers sass and charm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2019

Support the Girls is a smart, intelligent and ultimately bittersweet slice-of-life celebrating solidarity and empowerment in spaces where women are often discouraged from having either.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 12, 2019

Admittedly, I didn't understand Support the Girls for much of the running time. It feels like scene after scene of nothing happening. However, the remarkable final 20 minutes pull the entire movie together.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2019

The always excellent Regina Hall stars as den mother to a group of waitresses in this low-key, slice-of-life comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2019

Its portrayal of working class struggle is resonant without being didactic, and its hopeful to watch these characters find ways to survive, and sometimes even thrive, in this tough old world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2019

[Regina Hall] does fine job of holding the film together but, elsewhere, the story seems to waste talents like Haley Lu Richardson.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 26, 2019

Despite the comedic tone, the issues in this film are serious and it tackles problems that feel relevant to the modern working woman.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2019

A remarkably compassionate portrait of American womanhood that inspires hope without denying reality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2019