Movieo
Poster for White Girl

White Girl

2016 · 1h 28m · UNRATED Drama
Directed by Elizabeth Wood

Seen it?

Overview

Summer, New York City. A college girl falls hard for a guy she just met. After a night of partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to get him back.

Director and cast

Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

Top critics, in their words

All reviews
71%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Frequently difficult to watch, White Girl is the powerful feature debut of a filmmaker with original vision and clear talent -- and a movie that proves a lead actress can possess the gift of transformative performance skills.

Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

Neatly plotted and minimally staged, the movie marks Wood as a talent to watch, but Saylor deserves equal credit for her layered performance as the title character, a confident young woman who crumbles into a confused and frightened child.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh

First-time writer-director Elizabeth Wood's White Girl sets out to be a Great Gatsby for the 21st century - and perhaps in the process, to depict the orgastic future that Fitzgerald mentioned at the story's end.

Matthew Lickona, San Diego Reader
Fresh

Harrowing to the point of being off-putting - but not quite.

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
Fresh

"White Girl" announces the arrival of a director of considerable verve, and its choice of style and subject toes a similarly tricky line between leering exploitation and unflinching portraiture.

Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times

Comments

Talk about the film with other members

More films