Virgin
Artistic License | Release Date: September 3, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
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Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
7
Negative:
2
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80
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
I was haunted afterward by its seething rage at the malicious paternalism and sexual hypocrisy of fundamentalist Christians. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The performance by Ross invests Jessie with a kind of zealous hope that is touching: Here is a slutty loser touched by the divine, and transformed. Read full review
70
Film ThreatStina Chyn
An unconventional fairy-tale. There are no monsters to kill, the Prince character doesn't strike you as too charming, and the heroine is not the fairest maiden in the land. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Rough-edged but affecting drama. Read full review
50
VarietyRobert Koehler
The film is never quite as startling or mysterious as it seems to want to be, leaving it in an uncertain cinematic limbo. Read full review
50
The New York TimesDave Kehr
Ms. Kampmeier never brings her themes into tight focus. At one moment, the film is a detailed but familiar attack on smothering small towns and oppressive family structures; at another, it's a fable of feminist empowerment with an oddly fervent religious background. Read full review
50
New York PostMegan Lehmann
Many of Kampmeier's characters are either ill-defined or clichéd. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
So much of Virgin is bunk masquerading as sexual politics. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
An unfortunately muddled portrait of a teenage girl going through a moral and spiritual crisis. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Shot on shaky-cam digital video, filtered through what appears to be an old sweatsock, the film mimics Dogme-style realism in its vision of modern persecution, but in the end, it offers the sort of touchy-feely mysticism that belongs to the crystal-ball and tarot-reading set. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Shot with an annoyingly jerky hand-held camera, Virgin is a test to stick with, and despite the best efforts of Moss, it wore me out. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
Kampmeier's muddled, miserable first feature about maculate conception will make you look back fondly on 1985, the year Godard's "Hail Mary" and Norman Jewison's "Agnes of God" came out. Read full review
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