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Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 33
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Consensus: An intimate, compassionate look at two teenagers in juvenile hall.
Theatrical Release: Oct 31, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Girlhood, the new documentary film from Academy Award-nominated director Liz Garbus, tells two coming-of-age stories from the real America: Shanae, ten years old when she was gang-raped by five boys, responded by drinking and... [More]
Director: Liz Garbus
Like many similar documentaries, this 2002 feature doesn't present easy answers, but by letting the two girls register as individuals, it forces the viewer to care about them when few around them can be bothered.
Girlhood thoughtfully questions not just the system itself, but our unfair assumptions about the young people caught within it.
To the film’s great credit, [director] Garbus evens out her often heavy-hand and we’re given the emotional core of two young female criminals in ways often eluded in the movies.
..disturbing, yet life affirming portrait ... girlhood is an early stage of life, but the consequences of mistakes upon womanhood and, more significantly, motherhood will ...
The trajectories of Shanae's and Megan's lives speak volumes for themselves.
Deeply affecting in the moment, but I’m not sure that Garbus draws much in the way of larger conclusions.
Girlhood begins as a document of criminal justice, and ends as a testament to the power of motherhood.
Thanks to unprecedented access, acclaimed documentarian Liz Garbus is able to continue her upfront examination of the American criminal justice system.
An eye-opening sociological examination that is alternately moving and tedious. Ultimately, however, one can't help but be caught up in the travails of its two memorable subjects.
It isn't just difficult to do justice to Shanae and Megan in an average of 44 minutes apiece; as it turns out, it's impossible.
Top Critic Liz Garbus and company have skillfully captured raw emotions, something 'reality TV' almost never does, and Girlhood offers two valuable case studies to its audience, however difficult it may be to watch them.
While it is one part a coming-of-age story and one part a story of girls and mothers, Girlhood is just as much about the attainment of wisdom.
Top Critic In the end, the girls' stories are inspiring and heartbreaking, making this sensitively directed film one of the most rewarding of the year.
Seems like a summer camp, with inmates enjoying soda and snacks in virtually every scene.
As grim as its subject may at first seem, Girlhood is at heart an emotionally rich look at mothers and their daughters, and provides a refreshing look at how 'the system,' flawed as it may be, can work.
It shows a fascination with the criminal justice system, and amazing access to the people caught in its wheels.
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