45
Metascore
17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 67Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovGirl in Progress is an old story about a young girl told in a smart way, and that's something you don't see every day, no matter how many times you think you've seen it before.
- 60New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe movie goes soft. But it has the unpretentious energy and charm of a good YA girls' novel.
- 60MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeGirl in Progress feels a little trapped by its own conceits: It plays with the idea that all rebellion is in some sense performed and makes a caricature out of the immature, attention-hungry mother, but it never liberates its characters from their molds.
- 40Time OutTime OutUneasily poised between glib irony and earnest melodrama, Patricia Riggen's coming-of-age tale is as scattered as its manic pubescent protagonist.
- 40Village VoiceMelissa AndersonVillage VoiceMelissa AndersonUnconvincing, flawed matriarch Mendes and junior showboat Ramirez appear to be acting in entirely different movies.
- 38Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAnsiedad is a smart charmer, and well-played by Cierra Ramirez, she should really be above this sort of thing - above the whole movie, really.
- 25Slant MagazineNick SchagerSlant MagazineNick SchagerGirl in Progress operates like a training-wheels melodrama for genre-uneducated tweens.
- 25Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThis inauthentic teen tale, with its cosmetically softened edges, serves neither the young people nor the Mendes fans for whom it might be intended.