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100The 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.
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100The movie draws us into the illusion that we're simply eavesdropping on the lives of three inner-city black and Hispanic girls.
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100It's an astonishing movie, with a real-life feel.
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90This 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.
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90Directed 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.
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88Heartbreaking? Sometimes. Involving? You bet.
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83The three stars communicate the fears and dreams and frustrations of teenage girls with subtlety, sensitivity and dignity.
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80Best 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.
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80So gently told, so deceptively simple a story, that its considerable emotional power sneaks up on you.
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80The patient camera leans in closely on the three lead actresses -- extraordinary first-timers all.
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80The most faithful cinematic depiction of adolescence in recent memory.
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80It'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.
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80One girl's melancholy (beautifully expressed by actress Kerry Washington) is a response to a fractured romance.
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78It'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.
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75Has 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.
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75Has an assured air, rich with scenes of affection, anger and reconciliation, along with moments of unfeigned humor.
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75Anyone who understands the subtle shadings of friendship will appreciate Our Song's realistic slice of teen life.
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75That 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.
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75The movie's soul isn't its plot but the relationships among the girls.
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70The movie sticks with you as few do: It's rewardingly authentic and emotionally real.
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70iIsn'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.
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70So unlike most Hollywood coming-of-age stories as to seem downright revolutionary.
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70What'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.
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63A languid but refreshingly real depiction of female adolescence.
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30One of those movies that you continue to pull for even after it becomes clear that it isn't very good.
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