
The summer before college presents two best friends, Lilly and Gerri, with the opportunity to shed their good girl images. Both girls want to lose their virginity and explore another side of who they are. But their dark and different home lives and the introduction of a bad boy, threaten to destroy their friendship without it being the nice coming-of-age summer that the two girls envisioned.... (Full plot summary below)
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The summer before college presents two best friends, Lilly and Gerri, with the opportunity to shed their good girl images. Both girls want to lose their virginity and explore another side of who they are. But their dark and different home lives and the introduction of a bad boy, threaten to destroy their friendship without it being the nice coming-of-age summer that the two girls envisioned.
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| Film Journal InternationalMarsha McCreadieMore of a meandering, misguided path than a road to hell, Naomi Foner's directing debut, starring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen as 18-year-old BFFs, is similarly filled with good intentions. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaVery Good Girls has a breezy yet bittersweet, vaguely nostalgic vibe. |
| AV ClubJesse HassengerThe casting isn’t all together unconvincing: Olsen and Fanning’s collective ability to project intelligence beyond their years works both ways, allowing them to play both precocious youths and youthful adults. But Very Good Girls catches them in between those stages, and the effect isn’t evocative so much as muddled. |
| Movie MezzanineAnna Tatarska...Very Good Girls is a delicate and heartfelt story of a friendship on the eve of its maturity test, told in a nuanced, balanced way. |
| Easy Reader (California)Neely SwansonWithout better development, the multiple betrayals - Lilly of Gerry and Lilly's parents of each other and their family - would have resonated far more. Still, "Very Good Girls" is a good film and worth spending time with. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA difficult yet rewarding summer for a teenager getting ready to leave for college. |
| Under the RadarKyle TurnerWhile Olsen and Fanning are surely talented, such a cold screenplay -- one that feels hard to engage with -- ends up leaving the actresses little to work with. |
| EntertainmentTellStephen Silver"Very Good Girls" is far from a perfect movie, but I enjoyed its spirit and atmosphere, even as I objected to some of the key elements. |
| Slant MagazineClayton DillardMost disheartening is how the female leads aren't given ample space to develop as dynamic characters beyond the most urgent confines of the script's scenarios. |
| HollywoodInToto.comChristian TotoYouthful cliches trump insight in Very Good Girls. |