Fresh
Powerful, exhausting, ecstatic, twisted and unerringly honest, "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" is a rare film indeed, a look at a young girl's messy coming of age told completely from the young girl's point of view.
Tom Long, Detroit News
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Some things are best kept secret
2015 · 1h 38m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Marielle Heller
Overview
Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Writer/director Marielle Heller, in her captivating debut film "The Diary of a Teenage Girl," hits exactly the right tone for a complicated balancing act, and for a film that could very easily have gone wrong.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh
"The Diary of a Teenage Girl" is a breakthrough moment in the culture in that it depicts youthful female sexuality ... not just with the unapologetic frankness the boys usually get, but with an awareness of all the places a girl's urges will take her ...
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh
An honest and personal and unblurred examination (even through that druggy blur) of a tricky voyage into womanhood.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
"The Diary of a Teenage Girl" is as rewarding as it is squirm-inducing for its honesty, audacity and artful portrayal of adolescence from a girl's point of view.
Kristin Tillotson, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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