Girls State

Name: Girls State
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 5, 2024
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 77

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| Release Date (Streaming): April 5, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: Teenage girls from wildly different backgrounds across Missouri navigate a week-long immersive experiment in American democracy, build a government from the ground up, and reimagine what it means to govern.

Director: Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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Collider Taylor Gates

Jan 22, 2024

Not only is this documentary a microcosm of the country at large, reflecting real life in the way that charisma and the ability to fire up the masses can make all the difference when it comes to politics, but it also gives us a sense of what the future can look like. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nell Minow

Apr 5, 2024

Like its predecessor, this film is perceptive about these impressive young women who display dedication, seriousness of purpose, and genuine public-spiritedness. Read full review

Ariana Martinez

Jan 22, 2024

It not only introduces another side of this democratic activity, but does so at the perfect time to highlight its inconsistencies and inequalities, giving these girls the extra opportunity for reflection and growth. Read full review

The Guardian Adrian Horton

Jan 22, 2024

The film’s chief enjoyment is seeing how motivations transform, and character is forged, through the sliding doors of new people, victories and losses, and the sharpening of the young women’s disparate judgments on the genuinely disappointing differences between boys and girls state. Read full review

Lisa Kennedy

Jan 22, 2024

The film’s seven protagonists are the result of McBaine and Moss’s broad and deep interview process. Demographically diverse, the women are immensely watchable and touchingly articulate. Read full review

Marshall Shaffer

Feb 5, 2024

For chafing against existing systems designed by and for men, the storytelling structure of the film befits the female experience in American politics. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Jan 22, 2024

Girls State, like its predecessor, benefits from strong casting and ample access to the pint-sized political proceedings. Read full review

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