The film remains a searing time capsule of a place, and a timeless elegy for that messy period in girls’ lives that we’re all lucky if we make it out in one piece.

| Feb 13, 2024

Given the room for platitude and cliche, the film's wholly genuine, gritty and from the heart.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 3, 2020

Thirteen tries too hard to shock... but it is nonetheless a sensational look at the flip side of the American dream.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2019

The script is as overexcited as the girls themselves, and its affirmative ending is unearned.

| Apr 10, 2018

It is here that the performances pay emotional dividends. The sight of Hunter kissing her daughter's self-inflicted scars as if trying to kiss away the psychological pain that raised them will haunt me for some time.

| Jan 11, 2018

Explicit peer pressure story for older teens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2010

An excellent film with a great script, incredible acting, and a truly blunt cautionary tale...

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

No matter how much you've heard about the raw pain and reality of Catherine Hardwicke's debut drama Thirteen, it's still going to blow you away.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 29, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

A horror tale about a subculture in which impressionable girls drift under group pressure into drugs, piercing, self-mutilation, anorexia and shoplifting

| Original Score: A- | Nov 1, 2005

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 5, 2005

A rather basic tale about the perils of going along with the in-crowd and the extremes to which teenagers will act out for attention.

| Original Score: B- | May 4, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2005

a sober-sided Freaky Friday -- a chance to look through the eyes of a child

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jan 29, 2005

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2004

What power does a teenage girl have?

| Jun 13, 2004

Al menos una película se las arregla para decir que el "american way of life" (...) esconde terribles tragedias domésticas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 30, 2004

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 15, 2004