Girls of the Sun
Cinéart | Release Date: April 12, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
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7
Mixed:
7
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
CineVueMartyn ConterioMay 18, 2018
Husson’s film is first and foremost an appalling account of stomach-churning misogyny and the sickening horrors Kurdish women met at the hands of their vile captors. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 18, 2018
Girls of the Sun is a feminist war movie: impassioned, suspenseful, angry. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonApr 17, 2019
Girls of the Sun has an air of authenticity and grit that’s convincing, and Farahani, an Iranian-born actress, makes us care. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubRoxana HadadiApr 10, 2019
Without a more clearly defined cultural basis for its characters’ actions, Girls Of The Sun is a story about sisterhood that doesn’t provide its women the detail they deserve. Read full review
67
The Film StageJordan RaupSep 8, 2018
While it’s not as stylish as Husson’s Bang Gang, Girls of the Sun is just as assured. There’s a specific political message at its back and it expresses it without compromise for better or worse. Read full review
67
IndieWireEric KohnMay 18, 2018
While it’s less than the sum of its parts, those parts know how to deliver. Read full review
63
Slant MagazinePat BrownApr 8, 2019
With its naked celebration of self-sacrificial combat and idealization of the soldier as an avenging angel, it strikes a tone redolent of old-school war propaganda. Read full review
60
Time OutDave CalhounMay 24, 2018
There are powerful and enlightening scenes, and there’s a catchy energy to the battlefield action. But the immediacy and credibility of the women’s mission feels compromised by one-too-many corny moments, unconvincing dialogue and a sense of uncertainty on Husson’s part over whether she wants to take a poetic or realist approach to her tale. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerMay 18, 2018
Girls of the Sun (Les Filles du soleil) is at once mildly harrowing and completely over-the-top, intermittently intense yet so unsubtle it winds up doing damage to its own worthy discourse. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd May 18, 2018
This bombastic bid for respectability mostly left me thinking that their courageous, inspiring inspiration deserved a better movie, one with more nuanced plotting and a less overbearing score. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireApr 12, 2019
With Girls of the Sun, she handles the action sequences with a deft hand and a feel for tension, but her character development is woefully lacking to the point of empty cliché. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarApr 11, 2019
This disjointed, though consistently tense retelling dives full force into ostentatious pathos more often than it opts for narrative prudence. Read full review
50
Screen DailyLee MarshallMay 18, 2018
A mid-budget mis-fire after the director’s promising indie debut, Bang Gang, Girls of the Sun seems more concerned with staging sisterly bonding sessions amidst the rubble than in developing what might have been an intriguing story – about how war can reshuffle social and gender inequality. Read full review
40
VarietyJay WeissbergMay 18, 2018
Clearly the director’s positive impressions from her research made her want to create something that would generate popular sympathy for the cause, but writing a glorified TV movie wasn’t the way to go. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorApr 10, 2019
This film, about a French war correspondent and the Kurdish Amazon with whom she is embedded, has the worthy intention of telling the story of the women’s battalions in Kurdistan, but it’s formulaic and melodramatic. Read full review
37
Washington PostAnn HornadayApr 17, 2019
A film of admirable ambition but vexingly uneven execution. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisApr 11, 2019
Inspired by a 2014 ISIS raid on Kurdish territory, Girls of the Sun, unlike the women who populate it, is weak and often corny. Read full review
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