Horse Girl

Name: Horse Girl
Genre: Drama
Released: February 7, 2020
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Alison Brie, Debby Ryan, Dylan Gelula, John Ortiz, Matthew Gray Gubler

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Netflix | Release Date: February 7, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Alison Brie, Debby Ryan, Dylan Gelula, John Ortiz, Matthew Gray Gubler, Meredith Hagner, Molly Shannon, Paul Reiser, Robin Tunney, Toby Huss

Summary: Sarah (Alison Brie), a socially isolated arts and crafts store employee, finds herself more content in the company of horses and supernatural crime shows than people. But when a series of strangely surreal dreams upend the simplicity of her waking life, Sarah struggles to distinguish her visions from reality.

Director: Jeff Baena

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 104 min

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Richard Roeper

Feb 6, 2020

Brie’s performance is open and honest and disturbing and funny and lovely and resonant. The work is so good and so convincing that even when Sarah is spouting the craziest of her mad theories, there’s a small part of us that wonders if Sarah’s truth is the real truth. We certainly believe SHE believes. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Feb 1, 2020

The transgressiveness of Baena and Brie’s strange and sorrowful Horse Girl, is in how it turns the simplistic, inauthentic tweeness of the generic, quirky indie comedy in on itself to produce a rare and piercingly compassionate exploration of the sorts of madness that come from intense loneliness, and the intense loneliness that comes from being regarded as mad. Read full review

Alan Ng

Feb 11, 2020

Enter Horse Girl with an open mind and enjoy the ride. Read full review

David Fear

Feb 7, 2020

Whether you buy the ending or not is something between you and your own personal suspension-of-disbelief deity, but you can’t say that the star doesn’t commit to selling the character’s arc 100 percent. Insanity suits her. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Feb 1, 2020

Brie’s delicate performance nearly rescues both Sarah and “Horse Girl” from falling into the awkward traps it sets for itself, hedging on the tough stuff in favor of weirdness for its own sake, faux-arty style over anything that could offer the slightest interest in healing, for either its star or her story. Read full review

Screen Rant Chris Agar

Feb 11, 2020

Ultimately, Horse Girl is a tricky film to unpack. On one hand, it's fine that it doesn't provide easy answers for the questions it poses, but even dedicated cinephiles may find Horse Girl abstruse and challenging to a fault. Read full review

The Guardian Adrian Horton

Feb 11, 2020

The ambition of Horse Girl ultimately gets the better of it, turning what could be a dark but insightful depiction on signs missed in a mental health crisis into an agreement on one’s madness – a game of what’s real, and what’s not, that feels unsettling to play. Read full review

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SchmooSchmoo

Feb 8, 2020

Just a brilliant movie. Moving, intense and completely enthralling. A bleak honest but beautiful look at mental illness. Allison Brie deserves an Oscar right now.

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MrDizzle

Feb 8, 2020

As someone would has suffered from acute bouts of paranoia schitzophrenia, and had grandparents who suffered from Dementia, I watched this film in awe at its accurate portrayal of mental health issues.

Alison Brie's performance is incredible and the music and artistic direction all combineAs someone would has suffered from acute bouts of paranoia schitzophrenia, and had grandparents who suffered from Dementia, I watched this film in awe at its accurate portrayal of mental health issues.

Alison Brie's performance is incredible and the music and artistic direction all combine to produce a must watch movie.… Expand

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Gemperkins

Feb 21, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great acting. Everyone should watch movies like this to understand what it might be like for someone experience a psychotic episode. How scary they must feel.… Expand

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vitortfv

Dec 16, 2020

I think the purpose of the film is to present the psychological of a person who suffers from certain disorders - as it is presented during the same. It really comes to a point where you believe what the protagonist is going through and at other times you doubt it. Of course, for herI think the purpose of the film is to present the psychological of a person who suffers from certain disorders - as it is presented during the same. It really comes to a point where you believe what the protagonist is going through and at other times you doubt it. Of course, for her everything is real, everything is in her mind. Perhaps the traumas forced her brain to protect itself against everything bad and created an entirely unique world within itself.… Expand

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Mrpicture

Feb 8, 2020

Alison Brie has never been better on film, and for the first half Horse Girl knows how to blend confussion and mystery well together, before losing it in the climax with poor directorial decissions.

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JLau

Sep 27, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Woman has dreams that seep into her daily life but it's not clear if she's actually crazy or getting visited by aliens and for some reason, it's important that she likes horses.… Expand

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bigjon1958

Feb 26, 2020

Just a bad all around movie. Poor character development - really just one main character (the girl). The plot leads to either a story about mental illness, alien abduction, cloning, or time travel. The final scene leaves one to decide if this really was an alien abduction or mentalJust a bad all around movie. Poor character development - really just one main character (the girl). The plot leads to either a story about mental illness, alien abduction, cloning, or time travel. The final scene leaves one to decide if this really was an alien abduction or mental illness. I know which one I believe it was - won't spoil it here. Lots of 'weirdness' throughout the whole movie and a plot I didn;t really care about. A lot of fast forwarding to get to the end quicker.… Expand

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