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35
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28
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22
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Our Song
IFC Films
MPAA RATING: R for language and some teen drug use
Starring
Kerry Washington,
Anna Simpson,
Melissa Martinez,
and
Marlene Forte
This profile of inner-city life follows three teenage girls, best friends and members of their school's marching band, through the hot August streets of Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Jim McKay
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jim McKay
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 14, 2003
Video: January 14, 2003
Theatrical: May 23, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
96 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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...
100
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
It's an astonishing movie, with a real-life feel.

100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The movie draws us into the illusion that we're simply eavesdropping on the lives of three inner-city black and Hispanic girls.

100
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The movie's triumph is that we experience the ending, in which the three girls go mostly separate ways, not as a defeat but as a transition still open to possibilities.
90
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Directed with such a confident, delicate touch. Nothing is insisted on, yet whole lives are discovered and revealed in vignettes that seem as spontaneous as a laugh or a gasp.
90
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
This modest film has virtues that come out of nowhere. It takes familiar material and develops it with such tact and skill that we find ourselves moved and sort of amazed at the same time.

88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Heartbreaking? Sometimes. Involving? You bet.

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The three stars communicate the fears and dreams and frustrations of teenage girls with subtlety, sensitivity and dignity.

80
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
The patient camera leans in closely on the three lead actresses -- extraordinary first-timers all.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's more a collection of episodes that build to a complex, richly layered picture of these girls' lives. And the more time we spend with them, the more endearing they become.

80
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
One girl's melancholy (beautifully expressed by actress Kerry Washington) is a response to a fractured romance.

80
Film.com
Elizabeth Weitzman
The most faithful cinematic depiction of adolescence in recent memory.
80
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
So gently told, so deceptively simple a story, that its considerable emotional power sneaks up on you.

80
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Best of all is the supporting performance of The Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band, a real group of high-school musicians in which the three girls all perform.
78
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
It's too bad the language prevents this independent film from being rated PG-13 because this is the kind of movie that might be capable of realistically reflecting teens' lives to other teens.

75
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Anyone who understands the subtle shadings of friendship will appreciate Our Song's realistic slice of teen life.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
The movie's soul isn't its plot but the relationships among the girls.

75
Chicago Tribune
John Petrakis
Has an assured air, rich with scenes of affection, anger and reconciliation, along with moments of unfeigned humor.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Has the courage to work without a net, aware that when you're a teenager, your life is not a story so much as a million possible stories.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
That it all seems improvised on the spot (it was not) is testament to the power of a film that trusts its characters, its actors and its ultimate goal.
70
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
What's most impressive about this is that, if one didn't know better, the naturalism of the performances could be taken for that of a documentary.
70
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
So unlike most Hollywood coming-of-age stories as to seem downright revolutionary.

70
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
iIsn't really much more than a funny, touching little squiggle, but it has a bracing honesty and pays particular heed to the betweenness in people's lives, to how much goes on when nothing seems to be going on at all.

70
TV Guide
Frank Lovece
The movie sticks with you as few do: It's rewardingly authentic and emotionally real.

63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
A languid but refreshingly real depiction of female adolescence.

30
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
One of those movies that you continue to pull for even after it becomes clear that it isn't very good.


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