Bless every independent fiber of it being true to its own vigorous heartbeat.

| Jan 10, 2022

Heller's screenplay and direction also keep Minnie firmly at the centre of this narrative, her drawings and doodlings playing a key role in the telling of her story. Bold, brassy and brilliant...

| Oct 4, 2021

The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a rare frank look at adolescent sexuality from a female perspective. Beautifully acted by all.

| Oct 4, 2021

Told from a teenage girl's unfiltered point of view, this is not an easy-to-watch movie, but the uncomfortable moments raise important and highly relevant questions.

| Oct 4, 2021

Frank, pure and beautiful, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a candid ode to growing up.

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

Powley is razor-sharp as Minnie and Kristen Wiig is delightfully cast-against-type as her mother.

| Jun 24, 2021

With female sexuality onscreen, especially young women's, we're often presented with a binary: Is it exploitative or empowering? Damaging or liberating? Depressing or joyful? The Diary of a Teenage Girl asks why it can't be all of these things and more.

| Feb 3, 2021

The Diary of a Teenage Girl does one of the things that movies, and art in general, do only when they're at their best. It makes us see the world entirely from another person's point of view.

| Jan 14, 2021

In less-sure hands, this could have been a creepy debacle. But Heller, who first adapted the work for the stage, knows the material inside out, and with the Sundance Institute at her back, she has created an impeccably crafted film.

| Jan 10, 2020

Writer/director [Marielle] Heller avoids the pitfalls of thematic darkness and adds a layer of lightness thanks to fantasy animations and dreamlike diary entries that enchant and entertain.

| Dec 8, 2019

The Diary of a Teenage Girl is an honest, tender and daring debut for its director, with a brave performance from its young leading actress.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2019

The overall pacing, tone and execution of the film is excellent.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 14, 2019

It's honest, unapologetic, flawlessly performed, and a complex, unflinching look at female sexuality, which is no different in 2015 than it was in 1976.

| Original Score: A | May 10, 2019

Personal, daring, and with much to say, here's hoping DoaTG can become a trailblazer for female-voiced coming-of-age tales in a genre in which they remain badly under-represented.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 4, 2019

The performances, however, drive the story and make for intriguing conversations even if the end feels like it's pulled together quickly in order to spur a resolution.

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

Heller tells a remarkably rounded, rangy, and mixed-media coming-of-age story for a genre so typically one-track minded.

| May 2, 2019

If you feel uncomfortable watching Diary, you could hardly be blamed. Minnie and Munroe's romance isn't easy to digest out of context, but Heller presents it in a way that allows you to free yourself of the scenario's taboo implications.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 7, 2019

A late summer gem. Anchored by star-making work from Bel Powley, it's a bittersweet coming of age story that isn't afraid to explore some rather dark places.

| Jan 18, 2019

The Diary Of A Teenage Girl emerges not as a cautionary downer, but as a story of finding the ability to speak for oneself. If one finds the film immersive, it provides a measure of joy at its conclusion.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 14, 2018

A coming of age tale that delivers a strong message about sexual identity for both the young and those who remember being young.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 2, 2018