Left-Handed Girl
Netflix | Release Date: November 14, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
18
Mixed:
0
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0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
ColliderRoss BonaimeOct 30, 2025
After all these years, Left-Handed Girl is a terrific return to directing for Shih-Ching Tsou, who crafts a wonderful, often moving, and splendidly told story of three characters coming into their own. Read full review
75
IndieWireRyan LattanzioMay 21, 2025
Regardless of some of the screenplay hiccups and deus ex machina plopped from the sky, “Left-Handed Girl” still announces Tsou as a confident directorial talent with a rare exuberance. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 3, 2025
With this film, Tsou belatedly announces herself as “The Next Sean Baker,” a sure-handed director with an ear, an eye and empathy for the huddled masses whose story she tells. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireNov 14, 2025
The ultimate themes of forgiveness, reconciliation, and redemption shine through, and the joyous sight of Ye skipping through the corridors of the market is impossible to resist. Read full review
70
Screen DailyLee MarshallMay 21, 2025
Street-shot, cluttered and claustrophobic, Left-Handed Girl is both fast and slow, moving along at a relentless pace yet taking time to advance a storyline that turns out to be about the precariousness of women’s independence and the perpetuation of male privilege – sometimes by the very women that suffer under it. Read full review
70
Screen RantGregory NussenOct 31, 2025
Left-Handed Girl is ultimately quite optimistic while never succumbing to the saccharine. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineMarshall ShafferNov 13, 2025
In a young girl’s face is all of Left-Handed Girl, as Nina Ye, like Shih-Ching Tsou behind the camera, translates the immensity of this sprawling saga into immediate, intimate detail. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubNatalia KeoganNov 14, 2025
There’s something impersonal about Left-Handed Girl, like a greeting card written by a close friend with their non-dominant hand. Select words and phrases are legible, but the overall wobbliness has the entire sentiment feeling a bit fuzzy. Read full review
75
The Film StageAlistair RyderOct 28, 2025
Director Shih-Ching Tsou’s solo debut Left-Handed Girl is a simple but striking drama about growing up in a family living paycheck-to-paycheck. Read full review
100
The GuardianTammy TarngNov 13, 2025
Tsou and Baker’s script sharply examines what it really means to lose face: which shames are noble, which are indulgent, and what should be passed from one generation to the next? Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeMay 21, 2025
The strengths of this slender film, which Tsou co-wrote with Baker, stem from its authentic rendition of daily life in a bustling metropolis. Read full review
70
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanDec 3, 2025
Expressive visuals and evocative scenes, including one involving an overactive meerkat, make Left-Handed Girl a memorable family affair. It’s only when the film introduces one too many social realist tropes . . . that the melodrama grows unwieldy. Read full review
83
The PlaylistCarlos AguilarMay 21, 2025
The spontaneity with which the majority of the events seem to occur renders Left-Handed Girl all the more impressive. Read full review
80
The Travers TakePeter TraversNov 21, 2025
Anora Oscar winner Sean Baker produced, edited and cowrote Shih-Ching Tsou’s captivating tale of three generations of women building a life in Taipei. One personal note: As a leftie myself, I strenuously object to the idea that being left-handed is the mark of the devil. Read full review
70
TheWrapChase HutchinsonMay 21, 2025
Even when the film can get tangled up in subplots that don’t quite have the same impact as all the moments we get with the main trio finding a new path forward, it still mostly holds together. Read full review
80
Time OutKaleem AftabNov 13, 2025
Not every performance is assured – though Nina Ye is consistently impressive – and the script includes perhaps one twist too many. Yet Left-Handed Girl remains a sensitive and affecting drama that avoids sentiment in favour of more grounded emotional truths. Read full review
80
VarietyJessica KiangMay 21, 2025
Left-Handed Girl is an assured and lovely portrait of difficult motherhood and painful daughterhood, but it’s perhaps most entrancing for its turning-kaleidoscope-view of the director’s native city, where the characters are the bouncing beads, but Taipei is the glitter and the dazzle. Read full review
88
Washington PostJada YuanDec 1, 2025
In “Left-Handed Girl,” Tsou has made a love letter to nonconformists, and to the freedom one can feel when you simply stop caring about who the world wants you to be. Read full review
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