Very Good Girls
Lilly Berger and Berry, made an agreement to be deflowered in the period of their first summer out of high school. They both crushed on an handsome artist in their hood and put their friendship in jeopardy for once in their life.
10 November 1999, Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 December 1975, New York City, New York, USA
11 November 1962, Roswell, New Mexico, USA
1 September 1981, Prestonsburg, Kentucky, USA
18 December 1990, New York City, New York, USA
16 February 1989, Sherman Oaks, California, USA
16 April 1954, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
February 28, 2016
We should forget the contrivances because we're wrapped up in how the girls act during the aftermath, but we aren't given that privilege.September 22, 2014
Youthful cliches trump insight in Very Good Girls.July 24, 2014
Despite a finely wrought lead performance by Dakota Fanning, the drama feels more like the stuff of a mild - and dated - YA novel than an involving exploration of female experience.August 10, 2014
The film treats a complicated experience with painstaking simplicity.July 24, 2014
Disappointingly, Foner's young heroines are defined primarily by their reactions to other people. It's a great credit to Olsen and, especially, Fanning that they manage to make these characters vibrant and sympathetic anyway.July 25, 2014
Very Good Girls has a breezy yet bittersweet, vaguely nostalgic vibe.July 23, 2014
A drama that feels like an old person's idea of what young people are like.July 24, 2014
One insurmountable problem is that the stars, especially Ms. Olsen, 25, are too old for their roles. Another is that the movie has more characters than it can begin to accommodate in 91 minutes.September 26, 2014
"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.August 01, 2014
Bland, brooding coming-of-age drama wastes talented cast.July 25, 2014
Will any film this year feature a moment more pretentious than David asking Lily to read a few lines of Sylvia Plath's poetry before their first kiss? That guy deserves a smack to the kisser all right.August 16, 2014
Appreciably different and well acted throughout, and sincerely engaging in patches... [but] ultimately succumbs to sigh-inducing artificiality.