The Exploding Girl
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69 out of 100

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  • Summary: When twenty-year-old Ivy heads home Spring Break with a fresh romance in her heart, everything seems to be going perfectly. When her best friend Al finds himself without lodgings, Ivy and her mother take him in and Ivy and Al's friendship strengthens while her boyfriend grows more distant from afar. Increasingly distressed about her conflicting feelings, Ivy must stay resilient in the face of her epilepsy, lest her emotions become something she can't control. Marking Zoe Kazan's first leading role, Bradley Rust Gray's film is a meditative and realistic portrait of a young girl coming of age and finding a deeper kind of love in New York City. (Oscilloscope Laboratories)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15
  1. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kimberley Jones
    89
    Kazan appears in every scene of The Exploding Girl’s perfectly paced 80 minutes, and you’d miss her if she ducked out for even a moment.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    80
    This quietly poetic little gem contains many beautiful things, not least of which is leading lady Zoe Kazan, who lets every scene billow and swirl around her effortlessly.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    50
    The Exploding Girl can also make you feel bad about wishing that she were just a little more interesting.
  4. New York Observer
    Reviewed by: Rex Reed
    25
    There is no hope on the horizon for movies as leaden as The Exploding Girl.

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