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The Girl
Directed by
David Riker
PG-13
2012
1h 33m
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6.2
53%
44%
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A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.
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Cast of The Girl
Abbie Cornish
Ashley
Will Patton
Tommy
Giovanna Zacarías
Enriqueta
Maritza Santiago Hernandez
Rosa
Ángeles Cruz
Rosa's Mother
Harold Torres
Isidro
Raúl Castillo
Border Agent
Annalee Jefferies
Gloria
The Girl Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A sentimental shift in the last reel of the film seems artificially designed to wrap up the story and demonstrate that a life lesson has been learned. It's when it's at its most contemplative that The Girl is at its best.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
It's unfortunate that Riker's strong central character and evocative location work get undermined, at every turn, by a plot that not only springs zero surprises, but reduces the terror and loss of Cornish's charges to mere life lessons for her.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
What at first came across as a tale of dawning conscience increasingly starts to feel rigged.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Writer-director David Riker's film is tough going, but worth it.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
"The Girl" wants to be eat-your-vegetables cinema, but vegetables are good for you. This misery fest is more like an eat-your-bark movie.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
There are moving moments as Cornish channels the slow self-enlightenment necessary for Ashley's character arc. And the actress is particularly good in the scenes with the promising young Hernandez.
PopMatters
Sarah Boslaugh
It's a tribute to Riker's skill as a writer and director that, even when Ashley is behaving in ways that should make her totally unlikeable, you don't completely write her off.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
It's a spare film, but deeply felt and convincing, while bringing Cornish into a whole new light as an actress.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
There's a heartfelt tenderness for this troubled character on Riker & Cornish's part but it comes at the expense of realism or any serious answers to the questions raised by the film.
Shockya.com
Brent Simon
Too limited in scope and too predictable to transcend its social-issue movie-of-the-week roots as a tearjerker designed to play on feelings of particularly maternal independent film fans.
SSG Syndicate
Susan Granger
Unsatisfying psychological study of a neglectful mother, failing in its quest for spiritual redemption.
Austin American-Statesman
Charles Ealy
[Cornish] plays Ashley with a mix of guilt and determination. And the precocious Hernandez brings an equally stubborn quality to Rosa.
Observer
Rex Reed
The Girl enlightens with an unusual insight into the courage, durability and struggle of the Mexican people while taking the viewer on a guided tour of a piece of the country tourists never see.
Village Voice
Chris Packham
Hernandez is soulful and affecting ... and Cornish embodies Ashley's self-centered character with nuance and subtlety.
NPR
Jeannette Catsoulis
A patient chamber piece about the emotional bruises left by poverty and neglect.
Television Without Pity
Ethan Alter
The Girl is still more "good for you" than "good," but at least it supplements its feature-length lecture with a pair of good performances and a decent payoff.
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