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The Girl (2012)
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- Summary: A young Texas mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border with her father.
- Director: David Riker
- Genre(s): Drama
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Positive: 5 out of 12
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Mixed: 6 out of 12
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Negative: 1 out of 12
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80Written and directed by David Riker, who built his 1998 drama "La Ciudad" around immigrants in New York City, The Girl is stingy with backstory but rich with visual clues.
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60Writer-director David Riker's film is tough going, but worth it.
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60There are moving moments as Cornish channels the slow self-enlightenment necessary for Ashley's character arc. And the actress is particularly good in the scenes with the promising young Hernandez.
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25If the poor really interested such filmmakers, these movies would have something to offer other than lugubriousness masquerading as seriousness, and clichés presented as hard truths.
