Horse Girl Reviews
November 20, 2020
Amongst the metaphor and pathos, it's Brie's performance that stands out.
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| Original Score: 3/5
July 8, 2020
There is a lot going on in Horse Girl (2020), and it very nearly manages to pull it off.
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| Original Score: B
April 9, 2020
A luminous and colorful indie with surprising amounts of realism. [Full Review in Spanish]
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| Original Score: 3/5
March 18, 2020
By the end, viewers have whiplash and a distinct sensation that the script needed several more drafts, but they aren't bored.
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| Original Score: 3/5
February 27, 2020
Horse Girl unfolds like a fever dream, appropriately. A twisting narrative built upon strong performances. The end is far from satisfying, but that's part of its charm.
February 24, 2020
Brie's performance is powerful and the film's editing does a superb job of mixing Sarah's obscured perception with reality, succeeding in offering an unsettling look into the mind of someone who suffers from a severe mental illness.
February 24, 2020
An ambitious, odd project, and one that sticks stubbornly in the mind's eye.
February 21, 2020
The conclusion is meaningfully painful and actually felt like an invitation to revisit the film, a privilege afforded to streaming flicks that is too rarely exploited.
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| Original Score: A-
February 16, 2020
An incongruous, engaging ride, Horse Girl doesn't hit all the marks, and some audiences will become deterred, but Brie's tour de force performance is truly the base and it's one worth jumping off from.
February 15, 2020
Mental illness as the engine for a thriller is a cultural conceit whose days are numbered, but, as a last gasp, there's no denying this entry is compelling and evocative.
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| Original Score: 3/5
February 13, 2020
Young woman battles mental illness; sex/nudity, language.
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| Original Score: 3/5
February 12, 2020
Brie is rawly convincing as a troubled woman for whom the sides of reality have become too slippery, transformed into the heroine of a private sci-fi melodrama.
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| Original Score: 3/5
February 12, 2020
Horse Girl takes a while for its story to get going, but once it gets into gear, it excels in its beautifully bizarre and thought-provoking themes.
February 12, 2020
The character writing truly is Horse Girl's greatest strength, what makes it notable instead of a dime-a-dozen straight-to-streaming movie.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
February 11, 2020
Horse Girl is a strange movie ... It might not always make sense, but it still works; it's the kind of movie that'll leave you scratching your head ... in a (mostly) good way.
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| Original Score: 3/5
February 11, 2020
Enter Horse Girl with an open mind and enjoy the ride.
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| Original Score: 7/10
February 11, 2020
Brie's performance is open and honest and disturbing and funny and lovely and resonant.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
February 10, 2020
Ostensibly, this is a tragedy about mental illness... But "Horse Girl" is far more subversive and playful than just that, allowing for Sarah's peculiar reality to envelope our own.
February 10, 2020
Brie's performance is funny, sad, disturbing and, ultimately, resonates because you do believe the mental health nightmare that this poor woman is going through.
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| Original Score: B
February 10, 2020
Actress and co-writer Alison Brie combines forces with director and co-writer Jeff Baena for a consistently intriguing, occasionally brilliant, black comedy.