
Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan A. Johnson), a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn, is determined not to become "just another girl on the IRT" (the IRT is one of NYC's subway lines). She dreams of medical school, a family, and an escape from the generational poverty and street-corner life her friends seem to have accepted as their lot. But personal and sexual challenges confront Chantel on her way to fulfilling these dreams.... (Full plot summary below)
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Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan A. Johnson), a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn, is determined not to become "just another girl on the IRT" (the IRT is one of NYC's subway lines). She dreams of medical school, a family, and an escape from the generational poverty and street-corner life her friends seem to have accepted as their lot. But personal and sexual challenges confront Chantel on her way to fulfilling these dreams.
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| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliWhile the message of the film is as old as human society, the method of its presentation is new enough to make the movie worthwhile. |
| Empire MagazineYvette HuddlestonIt's a low-budget winner combining a sharp, protean visual style -- one minute music video, the next cinema verite -- with impudent humour, raw emotion, a thumping good rap soundtrack and some pertinent lessons in choice and responsibility. |
| VarietyVariety StaffAlthough the film is punched up by some energetic cutting and hip-hop music, many dialogue scenes, particularly early on, are badly written and awkwardly staged. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonIn Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., Ariyan Johnson seizes the camera's attention like no other performer since John Travolta strutted into Saturday Night Fever. |
| Independent on SundayQuentin CurtisThis jiving, sassy debut draws comparisons with Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It. Harris lacks Lee's wit, but also his cloying romanticism. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJust Another Girl on the I.R.T. ultimately offers a welcome glimpse of one of the individuals behind the sea of faces racing by in the subway cars -- the kind of face and individual that Hollywood customarily has never given a second look. |
| Time OutCatriona O'ShaughnessyOne could dwell on Johnson's in-your-face performance, or how refreshing it is to see a black New York drama played out by homegirls. But, facing facts, the climax is unpersuasive and the happy end a cop-out. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarWhat's especially encouraging about Just Another Girl is that in it Leslie Harris demonstrates a genuine knack for capturing on film the sounds and rhythms of adolescence. |
| Baltimore SunStephen HunterJohnson makes Chantel so vivid with life, so utterly without artifice, she draws you in and makes you believe, not only in Chantel's self but in her soul. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumWhat's exciting about this movie is a lot of loose details: frank girl talk about AIDS and birth control, glancing observations about welfare lines and the advantages of a boy with a car over one with subway tokens. |