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Movie Info

In the 1950s, several girls in upstate New York form their own gang.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Laurent Cantet
Producer:

Caroline Benjo, Julien Favre, Barbara Letellier, Carole Scotta, Simone Urdl, Jennifer Weiss
Writer:

Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet
Release Date (Streaming):

May 8, 2016
Runtime:

2h 23m

Cast & Crew

Ali Liebert
Muriel Orvis

Raven Adamson
Legs

Katie Coseni
Maddy

Madeleine Bisson
Rita O'Hagan

Claire Mazerolle
Goldie

Paige Moyles
Lana

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Critic Reviews for Foxfire

All Critics (19) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (6)

Initially a tinglingly edgy and realistic portrait of girl power in an age when female sexuality was considered an unclear but present danger to society, this frustratingly unravels over 143 minutes into something increasingly woolly and unconvincing.

September 5, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Metro (UK)
A handsomely mounted but strangely prosaic period piece.

May 16, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Adam Nayman
Globe and Mail
There's a ... sense that the drama based on Joyce Carol Oates' 1950-set novel is being explored by young women actually living the experiences of pushing back against a world they feel is determined to hold them down.

May 15, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Linda Barnard
Toronto Star
Individual performances range from striking to self-aware, with interaction often hesitant - a drawback in a story predicated on female unity.

August 9, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Guy Lodge
London Evening Standard
With the grim, ineluctable logic of resistance movements - the logic of mission creep and self-fulfilling vows of fanaticism - the girls move from non-conformism to violent confrontation, from empowerment to their and others' endangerment.

August 8, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
The passion and sincerity of the performers carries the day.

August 8, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Andrew Pulver
Guardian
Whereas Cantet's decision to use non-professional actors paid dividends in The Class, it seems to have quite the opposite effect on this occasion, with few of the young performers leaving much of a mark.

February 27, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Ben Nicholson
CineVue
It builds a rather convoluted bridge to nowhere.

May 16, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Katherine Monk
Canada.com
It's a fascinating story packed with vivid characters, but the pacing is so meandering that the story never builds any momentum at all.

September 3, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
Tighter editing could have elevated this from a respectable adaptation into something with an incisive edge, but at least it's a better take on the book than the misguided 1996 version ...

August 13, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Philip Concannon
The Skinny
The acting is often frighteningly good, and a little coda set some years later is fascinating.

August 12, 2013 | Full Review…

Philip French
Observer (UK)
Gifted filmmaker Cantet (The Class) packs this fascinating story with vivid characters, but fails to shape the narrative into something that holds our attention

August 12, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Rich Cline
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