87
Metascore
35 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100It’s morally complex and sometimes uncomfortably close to the bone, but also lushly bawdy and funny, and packaged together with an astonishing degree of cinematic brio by first-time writer-director Marielle Heller.
- 100The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyA remarkably vibrant and frank look at one precocious teen’s emerging sexual life — a film with the stuff of life coursing through its veins and sex very much on its brain.
- 100Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallIt’s this adoption not only of Minnie’s point of view but the voice and narrative style of her half girlish, half womanly outlook on life that makes The Diary of a Teenage Girl such a vibrant, hopeful film.
- 91HitfixGregory EllwoodHitfixGregory EllwoodFor all of Heller's impressive direction, she could have delivered something soulless without Powley's contributions.
- 88Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianSlant MagazineElise NakhnikianTrue to its title, Marielle Heller's adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's semi-autobiographical novel has the loosely structured, unfiltered feel of a young person's diary.
- 83The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezAs uneven as it can be at times in its last fifteen minutes, Marielle Heller has crafted a super promising debut that evokes the idea of unlocking the secret world of teenage girls and letting us live inside the special little jewel box if ever so briefly.
- 80VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThis adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner’s heavily autobiographical novel is ideally cast and skillfully handled.
- 80Time Out LondonCath ClarkeTime Out LondonCath ClarkeWhat a ballsy film and honest too.
- 80EmpirePhil de SemlyenEmpirePhil de SemlyenMinnie’s inner life, a fantasia of animations appearing Crumb-like around her, is dazzling, and there’s plenty of naked emotion amid the sex, drugs and hand-drawn penises.