Dirty Girl Reviews

Dirty Girl is an off beat gem that's well worth the bidding war it inspired at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10

...l feels like a Hollywood vision of the way the ignorant and unwashed comport themselves. It feels ugly and it made me sad.

Full Review | Original Score: 80/100

A funny, poignant if slightly uneven coming-of-age story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Dirty Girl isn't. Sorry, but it's just faux grime, a thin layer of bad behaviour that wipes clean with a two-ply tissue to reveal the real movie beneath - all shiny sentimentality.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Dirty Girl broadcasts its intent to be edgy and subversive - poking fun throughout at small-town, conservative attitudes toward sex and morality - without ever achieving subversion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The movie is all over the place, searching for an identity that proves almost entirely elusive.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The film rolls downhill to Serious Town when Danielle finds her father, and although the performers are equipped to handle it, it gets more heavy-handed as it winds to a close.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

if you can't quite get behind a defiant diva and her queer companion, you'll find every moment of this motion picture a chore

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

[VIDEO] "Dirty Girl" is such an inept attempt at abstinence propaganda that it should have the opposite effect on teen girls chomping at the bit.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

Enjoyable to a fault, Dirty Girl struggles at times with tone, unable to find an effective balance between scenes that border on farce and those with weightier themes.

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It'd be hard to conceive of a movie more painstakingly comprised of dramatic filler.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

There's one scene in the film, keyed to the heartbreak anthem "Don't Cry Out Loud," that struck me as rocketing over the top and into the glitter stratosphere. I got over it, though.

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Dirty Girl is much more fun when Danielle is behaving badly. Unfortunately, that only lasts about 20 minutes, and as soon as she befriends Clarke -- an unlikely situation in itself -- the fun ends.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

This is an undeniably clumsy film, but a good heart beats inside its chest and that counts for something.

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If your sensibility is pure trashy camp, don't expect anyone not to laugh when you try to be earnest.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

One can appreciate an artistic effort without actually endorsing it, which may be the most generous approach to Abe Sylvia's frustratingly uneven debut.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Undoubtedly this movie means something to its director and screenwriter - a former dancer making his feature-film debut. So why didn't he put more care into the period?

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Social satire, heartbreaking family drama and a lot of toe-tapping 1980s music attempt to exist in the same space. Watching this movie is like eating a hot fudge sundae and lasagna in alternating bites.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

[Sylvia's] attempts at situational humor on the road - including a stripping scene for Dozier as coming-out metaphor - fall embarrassingly flat.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

With luck, Temple will be able to get this movie expunged from her filmography, like a juvenile offense that is wiped from one's record when she comes of age.

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