Girls Rock!
Shadow Distribution | Release Date: March 7, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
The film is a hopeful, rollicking, rocking, humorous, heartbreaking journey. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
The camp runs for a week in a warehouse in Oregon. What the girls might lack in musical talent and experience they make up for with infectious energy. Watch your tattooed butt, Amy Winehouse! Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
A must-see both for girls and the grownups who love them. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
There is something, well, awesome about watching these vivid young women realize that music isn't always made on computers as they give their bands cool names like the Ready and get onstage after five days and ferociously sing earnest lyrics they wrote themselves. Read full review
75
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
The filmmakers capture kids and adolescents who haven't hardened their feelings into attitudes or molded their gestures into poses. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy Burr
How are girls supposed to behave in a culture that tells them they're Disney princesses for the first 12 years and sex toys after that? Girls Rock! has one answer: Strap on a Fender and rage against the machine. Read full review
70
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
A jubilant documentary about a place where power chords and empowerment go hand in hand. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
In one slender documentary codirectors Shane King and Arne Johnson accomplish what Hollywood routinely bungles: incisively depicting the inner lives of complicated young females. Read full review
70
Washington PostDesson Thomson
We may not get to their innermost feelings, which would have taken this documentary to a deeper, maybe darker level, but the movie's purpose is celebratory. As such, it's a satisfying experience. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
Girls Rock! is cutesy and quick-cut, emphasizing the absurd while trying to keep the audience's interest with animated interludes and footage from corny old industrial films. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Though Girls Rock! is nothing if not well meaning, it doesn't always feel like the best possible film on the subject. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneSid Smith
Girls do rock, and the final concert is both wild and cathartic. Too bad we haven’t learned more about these rockers along the way. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
As the camera follows four campers in a Portland, Ore., rock school for girls, the result is less a journey than a collage of random thoughts, circumstances and events. There's plenty of telling, but not enough showing. Read full review
50
VarietyRonnie Scheib
Aggressively upbeat docu, helmed by two males ill-equipped to bring any distance to the camp's pervasive feel-good feminism, tends to relentlessly reiterate points better served by example. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
Counselors and campers' moms tend to tear up when they talk about the lessons these girls are learning, lessons that go way beyond how to tune a bass, but this isn't exactly a "rah-rah" film. Read full review
40
Village VoiceVadim Rizov
While the camp is all about liberation, the film hews to a predictable doc template and comes off as a drag. Read full review
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