Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Sarah Boslaugh @ The Arts STL
- Excerpt: Adolescence is a time of changes, and being a young woman in a fundamentalist Christian family doesn’t make it easier to navigate.
- [New] | Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Laurel Parmet makes her feature debut with a coming of age tale that expounds upon the destructiveness of Christian Fundamentalist repression across genders, families and generations. Eliza Scanlen…renders Jem’s blossoming sexuality luminous
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Credit Scanlen and Pullman for portraying the nuance inherent to this dynamic and Parmet’s deft handling of the material to ensure these three-dimensional circumstances aren’t flattened to accommodate any one agenda.
- Ed Travis @ Cinapse
- Excerpt: The Starling Girl is authentic and subtle, troubling and triumphant. It’s quietly one of the best films SXSW 2023 had to offer.
