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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.