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

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

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 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 tackles the issue of teenage suicide with an assured treatment in The Virgin Suicides, effectively employing a seriocomic tone.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2007

A very curious and eclectic piece of work.

| Jul 18, 2007

The tone of wistful regret and longing doesn't preclude a good deal of gentle humour. It's a restrained, subtly suggestive piece which disintegrates if you try to get a fix on it.

| Jan 26, 2006

A disarmingly poetic - and specifically female - vision of adolescence that it belongs in a category of its own.

| Dec 31, 2003

Coppola's direction engagingly avoids the coming-of-age cliches and the film boasts an excellent performance from Kirsten Dunst.

| Oct 1, 2003

If missteps hold the film back from achieving the full grandeur it aims for, there is no denying the way it conjures a magic-realist American suburbia, rarely before brought so convincingly to life.

| Dec 2, 2002

a disarmingly wispy film given its subject matter, which is pretty much spelled out by its title.

| Sep 10, 2001

Coppola's adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's novel is both tender and devastating.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 2, 2001

An always impressive tale of teenage insecurity, deprivation, angst, and lust.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2001

More than most recent movies about suburban adolescence, The Virgin Suicides catches both the triviality and the grandeur of youth, its prosaic details and its mythopoetic flights.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

This shimmery, darkly comic adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel marks the assured, often inspired feature film debut of writer-director Sofia Coppola.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 1, 2000

May haunt you for some time to come.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It's hard to remember a film that mixes disparate, delicate ingredients with the subtlety and virtuosity of Sofia Coppola's brilliant The Virgin Suicides.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The film unspools with such a rich and peculiar unpredictability that it feels as though we are seeing -- or dreaming -- these things for the first time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A haunting tale and a stunning directoral debut from Sophia Coppola.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000