Little Trouble Girls
Kino Lorber | Release Date: December 5, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The GuardianPeter BradshawDec 5, 2025
This is an utterly absorbing and outstandingly acted film. Read full review
91
IndieWireDavid OpieDec 5, 2025
What could have been a generic sexual awakening circumvents tradition and expectation with surprise developments and increasingly sensual turns. Even when the film toys with cliche, as it does with multiple time-lapse montages of flowers in bloom, it’s still in keeping with Lucija’s viewpoint, to which Djukić becomes so perfectly attuned. Read full review
90
Screen DailyWendy IdeDec 5, 2025
Djukic’s coming of age drama is heady with intertwined sensual and religious symbolism; the first rate score and sound design teases out the tangled, conflicting impulses towards Catholic devotion and erotic abandon. Read full review
90
VarietyGuy LodgeDec 5, 2025
This is a striking statement of intent from its Slovenian writer-director — there’s an airy delicacy here that invites comparisons to early Céline Sciamma, but with its own raw, restless edge. Read full review
90
The Film VerdictBen NicholsonDec 5, 2025
There is an intense vulnerability at the heart of Urska Djukic’s Little Trouble Girls. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenDec 5, 2025
With superb performances across the board, particularly from her two young leads, and an adventurous use of visual and aural elements, Djukić has conjured an alluring fusion of spiritual awakening and adolescent confusion. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comRobert DanielsDec 5, 2025
It’s a profoundly Catholic work, whose slippery sense of sin and living instils great confusion and consternation to those occupying the narrative’s solemn monastery setting. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesTara BradyDec 5, 2025
Djukic’s feature debut echoes the sensitivities of Céline Sciamma’s early coming-of-age stories but with a bold, cinematic bent. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesDec 5, 2025
Formally and dramatically, the movie has poise, which only strengthens its depiction of girls thrown off balance by growing up. Read full review
80
Screen RantGregory NussenDec 5, 2025
At turns heartbreaking in its acuteness, at others exhilarating in its access to the dangers of pleasure, Djukić's is a rare kind of coming-of-age film. It is langorous in delivery, yet fast like lightning when it lands. Read full review
75
Film ThreatKent HillDec 22, 2025
Little Trouble Girls succeeds as a combination of poetic visual compositions and vibrant, dynamic performances from the female leads. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineWilliam RepassDec 1, 2025
The film fascinatingly shows how Catholic moral strictures and an underlying paganism where desire is holy are two sides of the same coin. Read full review
70
Next Best PictureEma SasicDec 5, 2025
Little Trouble Girls is a confident debut from Djukić, who captures so much life and perspective into a dreamy 90-minute film. Making it even more impressive are wonderful debut performances from Ostan and Svajger. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 8, 2025
Little Trouble Girls is a conventional girls’ coming-of-age tale whose clever twist is equating sexual awakening with spiritual awakening, at least in the eyes and ears of an impressionable teen. Read full review
60
IONCINEMA.comNicholas BellDec 5, 2025
Djukić is profoundly interested in capturing the tormented process of women’s sexual experiences, shaped by the restrictions imposed upon them by society, religion, and each other. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisDec 4, 2025
Djukic has a fine eye and is a talent to look out for, even if here, like Ana-Maria, she chose the wrong girl. Read full review
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