How to Build a Girl

critic Reviews

, 79% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • Led by Beanie Feldstein's charming performance, How to Build a Girl puts a disarmingly earnest spin on the familiar coming-of-age comedy formula.
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    Clarisse LoughreyIndependent (UK)
    Feldstein's charms are brilliantly weaponised here.
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    Robbie CollinDaily Telegraph (UK)
    The strong, distinctive, individual voice you keep hoping to hear never breaks through.
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    Kimber MyersCrooked Marquee
    It's not subtle, but How to Build a Girl shouldn't be a quiet movie; it's as loud and full of life as its central character ...
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    Tara BradyIrish Times
    That sense of goodwill around television veteran Coky Giedroyc's comedy is certain to apply to even the most hard-hearted viewer.
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    Charlotte O'SullivanLondon Evening Standard
    Johanna may be wise, but the film never puts her on a pedestal.
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    Mark KermodeObserver (UK)
    [An] entertainingly ramshackle coming-of-age story, adapted by screenwriter Caitlin Moran from her autobiographically inspired bestseller.
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    Jason FlattBut Why Tho? A Geek Community
    Feldstein has proven to be a master of the genre and How to Build a Girl is worth watching for her performance alone.


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  • , Rotten Tomatometer Score
    Dallas KingFlick Feast
    For a film where the central character has to develop a unique voice in order to stand out, the final product is crushingly formulaic... The result is a movie that resembles an album of terrible cover versions of your favourite songs.
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    M.N. MillerReady Steady Cut
    How To Build A Girl is a charming, funny, raunchy, even sweet coming-of-age tale
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    Dan BayerNext Best Picture
    Even in the film’s busier, messier moments, Feldstein is always highly watchable, and more importantly, relatable.
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