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To the Stars Reviews
While Stephen's production is not an innovative film that bends the standards of cinema, it's certainly an eye-opening coming-of-age story.
| Original Score: B+ | Feb 13, 2022
Director Martha Stephens skillfully evokes the pettiness and unspoken longing of small town life and gets wonderfully natural performances from her young actors.
| Nov 22, 2021
With each other, both [Maggie and Iris] find a space to belong, daring to reach for the stars towards a space beyond this myopic town...
| Mar 22, 2021
While not an easy watch at times, the performances are strong and what the characters are experiencing is movingly depicted. The power of female friendship and heartbreak and the tentative steps toward first love are subtly portrayed...
| Aug 31, 2020
To the Stars is a familiar film, sure, but also a quite lovely film.
| Jul 6, 2020
How Maggie's own fate is handled squarely places her in the problematic trope that's as old as the black and white styling of the movie's cinematography.
| Original Score: C- | Jun 25, 2020
To the Stars is an evocative coming-of-age drama that manages to follow the groove it cuts for itself, and says just enough differently to its predecessors, to make it worth a watch.
| Jun 8, 2020
The film's keen sense of the barrenness endured by the characters enlarges the poignancy of their loneliness.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2020
It's nicely shot, but a little tamer than it might have been.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2020
Some of it is a little unsubtly done, the odd cake is overegged, but overall, the film has a light touch and the characters are easy to care about.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2020
Parts of the plot feel contrived, especially towards the end, but overall this is a warm-hearted film that will appeal to teenagers bored of fast-cut squealing comedies and blockbusters.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2020
Although this is director Martha Stephens' fourth feature, it feels absurd that we haven't heard more about her previous films.
| Jun 5, 2020
To the Stars wants to remind us that however bad we think things may be now, back then there were times where it felt like there was nobody there to support those who felt differently.
| Jun 4, 2020
The period trappings - which must have cost a bomb - are lush and smartly deployed without being heavy-handed, and the two young leads are very watchable.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2020
To the Stars is a somewhat formulaic Middle America melodrama, enlivened by inspired and well-directed performances that infuse some radiant life into small-town struggles.
| May 1, 2020
Initially, you may find 'To the Stars' dealing exclusively in well-worn cliches. But you may eventually find it emotionally disarming you, and then knocking you flat.
| Apr 28, 2020
To the Stars is mainly a story about friendship, but at the same time, it shows that being able to live your truth isn't so black and white.
| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 28, 2020
With a fine cast and nicely crafted script, To the Stars explores both the stifling restrictions of its time period and and of the timeless struggles of adolescence.
| Apr 27, 2020
With strong female leads, and a writer, director, and lots of women below the line, including a score by Heather McIntosh, To the Stars is a gentle, engaging film well-executed on all fronts.
| Apr 27, 2020