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All the Real Girls
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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 36 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 19 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by:
David Gordon Green
Paul Schneider (story)
Directed by: David Gordon Green
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 14, 2003
DVD: August 19, 2003
Running Time: 108 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for language and some sexuality
Starring Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, Patricia Clarkson, Benjamin Mouton, Maurice Compte, Danny McBride, and Shea Whigham
A small-town Romeo falls in love with his best friend's little sister.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
Its a movie made of moments, the antithesis of "plot-driven," but the sum of these moments is magnificent, the culmination of so many elements: acting, scripting, score (by locals Michael Linnen and David Wingo), and cinematography.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
David Gordon Green's second film, is too subtle and perceptive, and knows too much about human nature, to treat their lack of sexual synchronicity as if it supplies a plot.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
It's thrillingly original, lyrical, and wise, and the filmmaker conveys the mutable intensity of young love with the authoritative originality of an important filmmaker.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
The movie may take five extra minutes to end and could do with one less sunset but . . . other than that it's damned near perfect.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Staff (not credited)
This is a lyrical heartbreaker that skirts most love-story cliches and is brave enough to be as inconclusive as the characters.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
Remarkable for its genuine, unpretentious lyricism.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
The best movie of the last 20 years about young people in love is 1989s.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
Green shoots his groping lovers in the art-film style -- long takes, static frame -- but his tone isn't at all minimalist; it's achingly, breathtakingly romantic, like the old Hollywood love stories his kids have never seen.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Like his (David Gordon Green's) debut feature of three years ago, the exquisite "George Washington," this new one has my heart, and I think it will have yours.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
The verdict? Green passes with flying colours -- his is a huge and hugely impressive talent.
Read Full Review >The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
Green treats his people with affectionate knowledge, untinged with patronizing. And he sees them in ways that are free of cinematic cliché.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
It's a movie of deft impressions and telling human moments. Whether or not those impressions and moments add up to anything is almost beside the point.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
The performers are tremendous, particularly Deschanel, who can travel to the end of an emotional tether and then suggest the mysteries of change and growth that lie beyond.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Wandering, atmospheric, episodic yet strangely appealing story of love.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
Girls isn't fabulous, but you do feel its characters really have connected.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Precious without ever being cloying, All the Real Girls is a wise, delicate and immensely touching romance.
Read Full Review >New York Post Megan Lehmann
It's the little things that resonate in this tender and sincere tale of first love.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Slow moving and low key, and, when the final credits roll, you feel like you have spent nearly two hours in the company of a few real people, not constructs of a writer's imagination.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Green unquestionably has a rare, intermittent knack for rapture.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
A movie that eliminates Hollywood gloss and pop cliches -- and in their place offers an honest look at young love and its pitfalls.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
A small movie about big emotions, with Green capturing the rush of love and sting of heartbreak with great vividness.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Deschanel and Schneider--who both give rich, funny performances--and everyone around them have inner lives that don't always translate into words. When they speak, it's usually in dialogue halfway between poetry and inarticulate fumbling.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly John Powers
Green is essentially a poet of moods rather than a teller of tales, and he adorns the movie with stylistic touches influenced by Terrence Malick.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
The movie is very beautiful, with a shambling pace and slow fade-ins and fade-outs; and when it works there's a tension between its characters' scuffling small-talk and its majestically ruined rural setting.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
It's a sad love story that's insightful at its core and indulgent around the edges, a film whose instincts are impeccable when focusing on that romance but less than compelling when it wanders elsewhere.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
Lurches toward an offbeat honesty but it also very nearly crashes in its quirkiness.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
The sad thing about All the Real Girls is that Green seems more in love with his perceived unconventionality than he does with his characters. If that's not a town without pity, I don't know what is.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
The central relationship here is curious but not engaging, except for the pleasure of watching Deschanel, making All the Real Girls just a filmmaker's exercise in impressionistic style and mood.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
This earnest love story is borderline insufferable, and yet there are moments that, in their bold incoherence, have a startling emotional truth.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Director David Gordon Green has created some fresh, penetrating, beautifully drawn scenes of one-on-one intimacy But some of what surrounds these interludes is variously misguided, fuzzy and borderline pretentious.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
Theres a ravishing aliveness to the spacious imagery; at least the clichés have room to roam free.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Tim Merrill
Aspires to a backwoods North Carolina Woody Allen quality that it often comes close to achieving. But sadly its just never quite funny, touching or insightful enough.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The main characters are unremarkable, and most of the acting is dull.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
The always charming Deschanel manages to rise above most of the film's logy pretensions, but the usually excellent Clarkson isn't so lucky.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Anthony Lane
Sadly, the men here come across as whiny and infantile, and Green is dangerously keen to stress their retardation. [17 & 24 2003, p.204]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.9 (out of 10) based on 19 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Tom K gave it a2:
Unless you like dialog that at times makes no sense at all and are into symbolism and super art house cliche then do not see this movie. It was a chore to get through.
William M gave it a10:
This film is REAL! And Zooey Deschanel is one of the reasons it is real. She is someone who cannot be other than real. Look at some of her interiews on YouTube and you'll see the same, honest, unabashedly genuine young woman. It is refreshing to see an actor who really is who they appear to be--not just a "poser." By "poser" I'm not referring to "character acting"--acting in which the actor's personality is completely abandoned and they assume an entirely different psyche. For me, contrary to the commonly accepted definition, inherent in character acting IS a residual element of the actor's personality, but only if that residual element is a reflection of an, open, honest, REAL personality--one the actor is both comfortable with and confident in. Zooey Deschanel, if you will, is destined to be recognized as one of the rare actors who successfully combines the accepted definitions of personality and character acting. What makes this film really great, however, is all of its elements-- the small town, North Carolina setting, the rest of the acting, the screenplay and the cinematography--being just as unpretentious as Ms. Deschanel is in playing one of the leading roles.
Megan B. gave it a 9:
I'm sure it wasn't perfect, but I believe it was the imperfections that made it beautiful. The dialogue was so realistic, it was painful at times.
Marc D. gave it a 10:
A beautiful film which expresses complex and genuine emotions in such an elegant way. What an excellent recommendation, Carrie. Thank you!
D Hickman gave it a 10:
Paul Scheider is a fantastic actor.
Brian F. gave it a 9:
This was a cinematically beautiful and emotionally potent film. At least as good as George Washington. The ending was wondeful. The reviewer below obviously suffers from a stale and not very open mind.
Sara gave it a 10:
By the way, in spite of other reviews, I loved the ending. It was perfect. This is a beautiful, touching, film.
