| Focus Features | Release Date: June 19, 2026 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Positive:
13
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4
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Critic Reviews
AwardsWatchJun 25, 2026
Where Girls Like Girls stumbles is in its loftier emotional goals. It can’t reach the true heart-wrenching drama it seeks to extract from Coley’s familial tragedy nor her pain with the middle chapter of this relationship. Yet, there’s a real sweetness to the movie that acts as a summer balm.
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Jun 17, 2026
While there’s something admirable about Girls Like Girls and its refusal to tidy up the mess of queer adolescence (the film will no doubt be an instant classic for young sapphics), it unfortunately never deepens into something fully realized. It only gestures toward the feeling and atmosphere of emotional complexity, rather than materializing its substance in full.
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The GuardianJun 18, 2026
Nothing in Girls Like Girls exists beyond individual feeling, and there are no larger institutions to speak of, not even a school. It all leaves the film stranded in an unsatisfying place: intensely personal yet emotionally unearned, politically gestural yet totally vacant of politics. Kiyoko has made a film obsessed with being seen. It never once learns how to look.
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The romantic relationship in Girls Like Girls flounders the instant it gets going, however, because Sonya’s hot-and--cold (mostly cold) attitude toward Coley is so confusing and poorly articulated. It seems obvious enough that the invisible enemy here is a hetero disapproval that Sonya can’t quite get past, but Kiyoko doesn’t do enough to identify those pressure points, other than shots of Sonya trying to appease her temperamental boyfriend.
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