That Girl in Yellow Boots Reviews
Top CriticThe film's value is in its portrait of Ruth, and her independence as a solo outsider in a vast, uncaring city.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Koechlin, a striking woman with a slim frame, horse mouth, and big turbulent eyes, has screen presence enough to kick along the frequently-stalling psychodrama up to an ending that seems like a tossing up of hands.
UR Chicago Magazine
Anurag Kashyap's 'That Girl in Yellow Boots' boosts strong performances of characters playing out a gritty script
Birmingham Post
The film's arc is predictable - not least because Kashyap doesn't show us much of the local city to help us escape from her lurid life.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Times-Picayune
This sordid soap opera ... goes beyond gritty and into the realm of grimy -- and, at times, downright icky
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| Original Score: 2/4
Guardian [UK]
The yarn flounders under a crush of declamatory dialogue, sheds its plumage in an overheated final act and no amount of delirious closeups of Koechlin's lovely face (shot by her director husband, Anurag Kashyap) can restore its sheen.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Slant Magazine
Flounders into a predictable series of extravagantly well-lit clichés that tend to plague daughter-seeks-daddy narratives.
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| Original Score: 2/4
