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81 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 18 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    100
    Georgia, written with rare honesty and economy by Leigh's mother, Barbara Turner, and very sensitively directed by Ulu Grosbard, is a tough-minded look at show business and families. [10 Jan 1996]
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  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    100
    It's one of the great sister movies and one of the great performance movies. [26 Jan 1996]
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  3. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: John Foyston
    100
    Georgia is one fine movie. Or maybe two or three fine movies.... Best of all, Georgia is a music movie, and a good one. [12 Jan 1996]
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  4. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Directed by Ulu Grosbard, who has never done a better job of filling the screen with superb acting, and shows great ingenuity at interweaving music with other aspects of the story.
  5. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    91
    It's a rich, engrossing ensemble drama that reveals itself very slowly, is filled with multidimensional characters and multi-layered performances, and works toward an amazingly verisimilitude. [19 Jan 1996]
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  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    90
    Performed to maximum effect by a host of top-flight actors, Ulu Grosbard's strong character study is knit together by a tense subtext that underlies even the calmest moments.
  7. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    A complex, deeply knowledgeable story about a truly lost soul and her downward spiral.
  8. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    88
    Harrowing and heartfelt, with knockout performances by a pair of fine actresses.
  9. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    88
    Georgia is a tour de force for Leigh, and her portrayal of the troubled, passionate Sadie lingers in the mind long after many of the movie's plot details have faded.
  10. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Georgia Brown
    80
    On the one hand, Georgia is extremely painful; on the other, there's joy in the enterprise. [12 Dec 1995]
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  11. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    80
    Georgia is not an easy film, but in the American independent arena, it outperforms everything in sight.
  12. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Janet Maslin
    80
    The result is a film as maddening and unpredictable as the character herself, held together by a fierce, risk-taking performance and flashes of overwhelming honesty.
  13. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: David Ansen
    80
    Written with an acute ear by Barbara Turner (Leigh's mother) and directed by Ulu Grosbard, it's a resonant, grittily specific film.
  14. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    80
    Quirky and nuanced, this movie has a lot to say about sibling rivalry and the current music scene.
  15. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    75
    It's still a good [movie], with its self-contained world of concert arenas and smoky clubs and sad, weird people who linger in the mind.
  16. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Susan Wloszczyna
    63
    a painful though sadly humorous portrait of sisterhood deftly written by Leigh's mom, Barbara Turner, and directed with just-right spareness by Ulu Grosbard. [08 Dec 1995]
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  17. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Barbara Shulgasser
    50
    Leigh plays the tragic and annoying Sadie as if she loved and hated the character simultaneously. And to the degree that this courageous movie succeeds it will elicit the same feelings in the audience.
  18. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    30
    It's a startling, exhausting spectacle - and, like the rest of Leigh's performance, very, very bad.
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