The film’s visual style is not in thrall to aestheticised despair, but best understood as an appreciation of the Lisbon girls themselves, a celebration of their lives, fairly unremarkable until they are not.

| Jul 26, 2023

With an impeccable cast and an assured vision from Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is an indelible cinematic landmark.

| Jul 16, 2023

And yet a film set in suburban Michigan in 1975, about a quintet of teenage pre-Raphaelite enigmas who take their own lives, somehow remains dreamy and beguiling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2023

Sofia Coppola’s first (and still best) feature...

| Mar 20, 2023

It was a tone-setter for Coppola in paving her own path as a director.

| Feb 22, 2023

Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides may not have much of a plot to speak of, but thanks to a talented cast and intriguing subject matter, it remains a hypnotic and compelling experience that keeps you engaged for its brief 90-minute runtime.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 8, 2022

Coppola's visually arresting adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' cocktail-talk novel is pure aesthetic candy; her saturated colors, pitch-perfect '70s sensibility, and snapshot editing produce an unsettling modern fairy tale.

| May 27, 2022

Although the events in "The Virgin Suicides" may not be presented through an innately nostalgic lens, they become a binding source of nostalgia by viewing the film 20 years after its initial wide release.

| Feb 16, 2022

A visually resplendent if narratively unsettling drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 29, 2021

But the film's core has much more to say about how someone's suicide is perceived and remembered by society as a whole than about the act of suicide itself.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Sofia Coppola's directorial debut is a dark, gauzy adaptation...The laconic style of the film purposefully and poetically echoes the emotionally troubled tide that grips the sisters.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 9, 2020

By the end, The Virgin Suicides is a rare thing, an anti-coming-of-age movie.

| Sep 16, 2020

A uniquely unforgettable movie experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2020

The Virgin Suicides offers a glimpse into the murky unknowability of adolescence, and its legacy is tied to the portraits of femininity with which Sofia Coppola has crafted her filmography.

| May 9, 2020

A brilliant external commentary on patriarchy, affluence and homogeneity, as well as an experiential ode to the intangibles and inherent mysteries of the human condition.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 3, 2018

A surprisingly intricate struggle with absence, grief, and memory.

| Jul 30, 2012

Intense, imperfect movie about teen suicide.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2010

Sofia Coppola's compelling, ethereal fable about adolescent loss of innocence is claustrophobic and uncomfortable, but profoundly affecting and gently funny. "The Virgin Suicides" advises teen years are sometimes best remembered as a long-ago vacation.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 22, 2010

Sofia Coppola's adaptation of Jeffery Eugenides' 1993 novel plays like a sweet, sad dream.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

It's yet another case of blame-the-parents, and, more precisely, blame-the-overprotective-mother.

| Original Score: C | Jul 24, 2007