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.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreClarisse LoughreyIndependent (UK)
Feldstein's charms are brilliantly weaponised here.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreRobbie CollinDaily Telegraph (UK)
The strong, distinctive, individual voice you keep hoping to hear never breaks through.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreKimber 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 ...
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreTara BradyIrish Times
That sense of goodwill around television veteran Coky Giedroyc's comedy is certain to apply to even the most hard-hearted viewer.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreCharlotte O'SullivanLondon Evening Standard
Johanna may be wise, but the film never puts her on a pedestal.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMark KermodeObserver (UK)
[An] entertainingly ramshackle coming-of-age story, adapted by screenwriter Caitlin Moran from her autobiographically inspired bestseller.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJason 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.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreDallas 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreM.N. MillerReady Steady Cut
How To Build A Girl is a charming, funny, raunchy, even sweet coming-of-age tale
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDan BayerNext Best Picture
Even in the film’s busier, messier moments, Feldstein is always highly watchable, and more importantly, relatable.
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