Fresh
God Help the Girl is about aspirations and goals, musical or otherwise. Murdoch is working some things out here, gracefully on the whole.
Brad Wheeler, Globe and Mail
God Help the Girl
2014 · 1h 51m · Unrated
Comedy, Drama, Music
Directed by
Stuart Murdoch
Overview
Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a band.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
67%
Tomatometer
Rotten
"Girl" meanders narratively and with random chronology ...
Peter Keough, Boston Globe
Fresh
The movie is like a milk shake so sweet that you want to keep drinking, even as you begin to gag.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
It's adorable. It's also very thin.
Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic
Fresh
Browning, staring down the camera and singing up a storm, brings buckets of soulfulness to a script that might not be terribly deep.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
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