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A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
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| Los Angeles TimesRebecca KeeganBig summer action movies can be thrilling, but if you really want to feel your heart pounding out of your chest, try being a 15-year-old girl for 101 minutes. |
| The New York TimesManohla DargisThe novel is life-specific, but what makes Minnie — on the page and now on the screen — greater than any one girl is how she tells her own story in her own soaringly alive voice. |
| The Arts DeskMatt WolfMultiple stars are born in The Diary of a Teenage Girl, the conventionally titled film premiered earlier this year at Sundance that turns out to be unconventional in every way that matters. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrThe heroine’s voice-overs, delivered into the microphone of a Bell & Howell tape recorder in Minnie’s bedroom, are the movie’s motor. They’re proud and insecure, profanely comic, dripping with adolescent wisdom and self-absorption. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayOne needn’t have first-person experience with, or even approve of, the extremes Minnie pursues to appreciate the honest, forthright way Heller and Powley present a journey that, stripped to its most basic emotional elements, is timeless and universal. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMovies concerned with the life, the mind, the body and the dawning self-respect of a 15-year-old girl running every sort of risk — these are rare. The Diary of a Teenage Girl is one of them, and it's terrific. |
| The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyA remarkably vibrant and frank look at one precocious teen’s emerging sexual life — a film with the stuff of life coursing through its veins and sex very much on its brain. |
| The GuardianLeslie FelperinIt’s morally complex and sometimes uncomfortably close to the bone, but also lushly bawdy and funny, and packaged together with an astonishing degree of cinematic brio by first-time writer-director Marielle Heller. |
| Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghMarielle Heller’s debut directorial effort is incisive and universal, despite its very specific and detailed setting. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversPowley is sensational, expertly blending hilarity and heartbreak. Her scenes with Wiig, sublime in her hard-won gravity, are unique and unforgettable. Just like the movie. |