Scrapper
Picturehouse Entertainment | Release Date: August 25, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
21
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New York TimesClaire ShafferAug 24, 2023
Scrapper is tender without falling into sappiness. Read full review
88
Washington PostAnn HornadaySep 18, 2023
Regan directs Scrapper with exceptional verve, interrupting the narrative with witty documentarylike asides whose framing evokes the poppy aesthetic of Wes Anderson. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonSep 14, 2023
Most coming-of-age tales chart a course from childhood to maturity. Scrapper flips the premise, allowing a kid who grew up too fast the luxury of slowing down to savor childhood. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyAug 25, 2023
The resilience in Scrapper is a type of lived creativity, an imaginative space where Georgie—and her father—make up their own rules and their own world. This is an amazing directorial debut. Read full review
83
The PlaylistAlani VargasJan 28, 2023
Watching Georgie embrace what’s making her vulnerable and realizing that doesn’t make her powerless is moving, and seeing this father and daughter connect is sweet. She, of course, will never let go of her fast-talking, hustling nature, but she now doesn’t have to do it alone. Read full review
83
IndieWireAdam SolomonsJan 28, 2023
Although Scrapper — and Georgie — have some rough edges, Regan’s film is remarkably gentle, without being schmaltzy. Its wry observations are more effective than the big emotional swings Scrapper sometimes, but not often, chooses to take. Read full review
80
Film ThreatSumner ForbesAug 29, 2023
There’s no doubt that Scrapper is a gem, and it features two of the most impressive debuts of the year in filmmaker Charlotte Regan and her star Lola Campbell. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeAug 26, 2023
Mostly Regan’s unfiltered approach brings a fizzing unpredictability and vitality to this abrasively empathic exploration of a father-daughter bond. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithAug 25, 2023
As directed with a wonderful combination of whimsy, deadpan humor and childlike exhilaration by Ms. Regan, the film is impish and full of bounce. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinAug 25, 2023
Scrapper rummages around with style. It puts bubbles in the kitchen sink. Read full review
80
EmpireElla KempAug 24, 2023
A towering achievement for a first film, Scrapper refuses to be pigeonholed as another dreary story about working-class life. Grief has hope, youth holds the keys to everything. Read full review
80
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyAug 24, 2023
Scrapper is a solar system of a film, with Campbell’s playful and defiant Georgie shining bright at its centre. You’ll not find many characters this year quite as likeable. Read full review
80
Little White LiesHannah StrongAug 24, 2023
While Scrapper might not have the most original conceit, it’s a sweet, heartfelt take on the difficulty of father-daughter bonding, and how to be soft when you’ve tried to make yourself hard to avoid getting hurt. Read full review
80
SlashfilmMarshall ShafferAug 24, 2023
Scrapper is just the kind of scrappy triumph its title indicates. It's not the newness of the materials that matters here — it's how they are assembled with such care and consideration. Read full review
80
Time OutPhil de SemlyenAug 3, 2023
Like Aftersun on a gallon of SunnyD, this warm and freewheeling comedy-drama about a girl connecting with the dad she’s never met proves that working-class stories don’t have to be all misery and angst. Sometimes, that kitchen sink can be filled with bubbles. Read full review
80
TheWrapJan 28, 2023
The story is familiar enough that it requires unerring lead performances, and though Regan has done an outstanding job working with her actors, credit must also go to casting director Shaheen Baig. Read full review
70
Screen DailyWendy IdeJan 28, 2023
Stylistically bold and youthful in approach, if sometimes a little uneven, it’s a picture packed full of ideas and fizzing energy. Read full review
70
VarietyGuy LodgeJan 28, 2023
Regan’s debut rehashes a host of familiar elements from assorted kitchen-sink dramas and dysfunctional parent-child stories, painting them colorfully enough that audiences won’t mind the odd bit of rust. Read full review
67
ColliderTherese LacsonFeb 9, 2023
Its greatest strength lies in its simplicity, but that might also be where it falls flat for some. Read full review
67
The Film StageChristopher SchobertJan 28, 2023
If Regan’s film is not very memorable, it’s also, without question, wholly believable. She captures the complexities of an abbreviated childhood and early parenthood with real insight, and with Georgie has created a delightful protagonist. Read full review
61
Paste MagazineJacob OllerJan 28, 2023
Scrapper isn’t funny or sweet enough to overcome some of its more cutesy leanings, and it’s not inventive enough to stand out from its peers covering the same kind of burgeoning parent-child relationship. But it hangs together, as brief and unsatisfying as its narrative may be, which proves Regan capable of pulling off a feature, even if we’ll need to wait for a second film to fully see her more off-the-wall ideas flourish. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesTara BradyAug 25, 2023
The tricky father-daughter pairing at the centre of Charlotte Regan’s surefooted debut feature marks Scrapper as the poppier, knockabout cousin of last year’s Aftersun. In common with Charlotte Wells’s award-winning film, this drama pitches a knowing pre-adolescent against an uncertain parent. But the tone, colours and flights of fancy make Scrapper lighter and sparkier viewing. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 20, 2023
The gentleness of the connection between Jason and Georgie gives Scrapper its warmth. Just hanging out together on camera is much more difficult than it looks, and Dickinson and Campbell manage it well. Regan looks like a very impressive and capable movie talent. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinJan 28, 2023
Scrapper is a sweet bit of fluff that’s trying too hard to be funny and offbeat and ends up being too often simply annoying. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeAug 21, 2023
Charlotte Regan’s film is a baffling clash of two incompatible visions. Read full review
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