Ginger & Rosa
A24 | Release Date: March 15, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
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Generally favorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Portland OregonianM. E. RussellFeb 27, 2013
It's quietly brutal stuff, beautifully acted by Fanning, Englert, Christina Hendricks and a word-twisting Alessandro Nivola. Read full review
91
IndieWireEric KohnFeb 25, 2013
A viscerally charged movie that foregrounds surface tensions and gripping performances, Ginger and Rosa is the filmmaker's most accessible and technically surefooted work to date. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyMelissa MaerzMar 13, 2013
A touching drama from British art-house filmmaker Sally Potter, who broke through to wider audiences with 1992's "Orlando" and has now made her most mainstream movie yet. Read full review
83
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezFeb 25, 2013
Beautiful, yet dark and moving, unsparing, but told with a sympathetic eye, Ginger & Rosa is sometimes relentless in its examination of emotional pain. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMar 28, 2013
Fanning is nearly perfect as Ginger navigates choppier waters than most teens have to. There is not a false note in her performance; no matter how melodramatic things become, everything about Ginger remains genuine. Read full review
80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMar 14, 2013
Ms. Fanning, who is younger than her character, shows a nearly Streepian mixture of poise, intensity and technical precision. It is frightening how good she is and hard to imagine anything she could not do. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 25, 2013
This is a teenage movie that could in other hands have been precious; instead it has delicacy and intelligence. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayMar 22, 2013
Suffused with enormous compassion for the young woman at its center, this parable of awakenings shares some DNA with the art house hit “An Education” but has little of that movie’s nods to cozy humor and happy endings. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 21, 2013
Sally Potter's twin interests - in grand world movements and in the grand internal movements in people lives - are effectively brought to bear in Ginger & Rosa, her best film of the decade. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrMar 21, 2013
In Fanning, Potter has found the perfect vessel, and the miracle is that the actress doesn’t even seem to be trying. She just is. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertMar 20, 2013
It's a portrait of a time and place, characters keeping company around a simple kitchen table, and the helplessness adolescents feel when faced with the priorities of those in power. What I'll take away from it is the knowledge that now the Fannings have given us two actresses of such potential. Read full review
75
New York PostSara StewartMar 14, 2013
There’s not a bad performance in the bunch. Hendricks’ and Fanning’s Brit accents are nicely un-showy. Read full review
75
NPRBob MondelloMar 14, 2013
An intriguingly complex portrait of both of its characters and of the time of flux they live in. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineFeb 25, 2013
With Ginger & Rosa, Sally Potter manages to avoid nearly every pratfall of such period pieces, focusing on extreme alienation rather than enlightenment, and wringing a powerful and jaundiced coming-of-age story from the decade's less trod corners. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranMar 14, 2013
It's an adult look at the teenage years, an examination of how personal emotions inform political action, a noteworthy change of pace for writer-director Sally Potter and, most of all, the showcase for a performance by Elle Fanning as Ginger that is little short of phenomenal. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMar 14, 2013
Ms. Englert's performance isn't as interesting as it might have been if the writing hadn't favored Ginger. But Ms. Fanning, a young actress of seemingly unerring instincts, is a wonder. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyFeb 25, 2013
The film’s small scale is more than compensated for by its insights into adolescent awareness, the passions stoked by global causes and the moral hypocrisy of the ideologically righteous. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayMar 13, 2013
The movie can be affecting at times, and might’ve been even more so if Potter hadn’t made its theme so explicit, via heavy “this is the point” speeches delivered during what’s otherwise a powerful climax. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMar 25, 2013
Potter’s film is at is most artful in the painterly ways she composes the wordless scenes of the girls testing cigarettes, hitchhiking with the wrong boys and Rosa exploring heavy petting with another boy, showing off for Ginger. Read full review
60
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonMar 12, 2013
In its closing minutes Potter restores the calmer observational tone and mood that distinguish much of Ginger & Rosa, providing a lovely summation of its main character's age-appropriate contradictions. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfMar 12, 2013
The most heart-wrenching thing about the film is watching Fanning’s transformation from idealist to wreck, the father’s free-thinking daughter turned into the mother’s double in the space of a dinner argument. It’s not quite enough for a film, but it is for one magnificent scene. Read full review
60
Total FilmEmma DibdinMar 8, 2013
Spearheaded by a strikingly self-assured turn from Elle Fanning, this ’60s-set coming-of-ager follows two teenage girls whose bond starts to crumble under the emotional and political pressures of adulthood. Read full review
50
TimeMary PolsMar 18, 2013
Ginger & Rosa never matches the freshness of its young star. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottApr 19, 2013
There's not much meat to the story. So while the picture on the menu suggests filet mignon, we really get mostly fish-and-chips stuff. Read full review
40
EmpireAnna SmithFeb 25, 2013
Despite some strong moments, Ginger and Rosa fails to really convince. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeFeb 25, 2013
Potter seems at a loss to communicate the ideas behind her agonizingly elliptical picture, leaving auds to marvel at the gorgeous cinematography and scarlet-red hair of its heroine, earnestly played by Elle Fanning in a project undeserving of her talents. Read full review
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