Dirty Girl
Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: October 7, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
7
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenOct 2, 2011
A sweet 'n' sassy period comedy with a "Juno" sensibility and the soul of a "Little Miss Sunshine," the hard-to-resist Dirty Girl announces the official arrival of Juno Temple. Read full review
65
MovielineStephanie ZacharekOct 6, 2011
Dirty Girl is harmless enough, and the early scenes, in which Danielle surveys poor Clarke with snobbish contempt, have a pleasing nastiness. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 2, 2011
For those not hip to its smug "out is in" mentality, Dirty Girl's redeeming feature is its cast. Temple is vixen enough to carry the part, but manages to project a real wit burning beneath the layers of makeup and dumb-blonde shtick her character affects around others. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenOct 21, 2011
Dirty Girl isn't. Sorry, but it's just faux grime, a thin layer of bad behaviour that wipes clean with a two-ply tissue to reveal the real movie beneath – all shiny sentimentality. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubOct 6, 2011
Watching this movie is like eating a hot fudge sundae and lasagna in alternating bites. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedOct 5, 2011
Dirty Girl is a bad movie with no insights that is broadly drawn and genuinely plagued by filthy dialogue. You don't laugh. You just wince, and wonder how the whole thing ever got financed. Read full review
40
The New York TimesA.O. ScottOct 6, 2011
Deep down, though, this movie by the first-time writer-director Abe Sylvia is desperate for approval. Starting out with a blast of profanity and sexual brazenness, it lands in a zone of earnest, sloppy weepiness. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonOct 4, 2011
For a film that's supposed to be rooted in such a specific time and place, Sylvia isn't really concerned with details: Costumes, hair, and décor appear to be the work of "That '70s Show" interns; William H. Macy, as Danielle's Mormon soon-to-be stepdad, continuously muffs a Sooner State drawl. Read full review
40
Time OutAlison WillmoreOct 4, 2011
A standout in smaller parts in films like "Kaboom" and "Atonement," this frizzy blond actor has the air of a star-in-training in search of the right opportunity. This isn't it, unfortunately, but Temple does turn what's essentially a magical-hussy role into something more grounded and human. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundOct 3, 2011
There's a girl, and she's prone to dirty acts, but that's just one patch of this arbitrarily stitched quilt of white-trash, Bible-Belt transgression, which flattens under the weight of a truckload of half-realized ambitions. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleOct 7, 2011
Writer-director Abe Sylvia slathers on the cartoonish characterization and neon-colored '80s pop - Benatar! Joan Jett! The Outfield! - for an easy-bake mood-setting, which is tedious enough. But his attempts at situational humor on the road - including a stripping scene for Dozier as coming-out metaphor - fall embarrassingly flat. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithOct 7, 2011
Sorry, but if your sensibility is pure trashy camp, don't expect anyone not to laugh when you try to be earnest. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasOct 5, 2011
In many ways, the film is history repeating itself, as the same Weinstein brothers who famously dropped $10 million on "Happy, Texas" in 1999 have overpaid again for "Happy, Texas 2." Read full review
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