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100Superbly cast, evocatively directed.
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91The blessings of salvation have rarely felt so mixed, the parameters of Lolita-hood so elusive - which is exactly Martel's specialty.
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90The Holy Girl may occasionally frustrate your desire for clarity and order, but in the end it will reward your patience, and you leave the theater in a state of quiet awe.
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88Takes a potentially explosive subject and does it subtly and perceptively.
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88A collection of beautifully acted encounters, conversations, symbols, and vignettes woven into an evocative and unforgettably surreal garment.
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83Gets its hooks into you in ways that are hard to explain or to ignore.
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The film's wealth in themes provokes unsettling thought, even as it feels meager in thesis.
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80It's a marvelously acted film, driven by a sweaty-palmed, exponentially mounting tension.
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80It's a style at once ravishing and mysterious, austere and intimate, carrying with it the suggestion that even cinema may be powerless to invade the most clandestine antechambers of human behavior.
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80Adjusting to Martel's style requires patience, but her indirection pays dividends, culminating in an unforgettable final shot that flies in the face of narrative expectations.
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80Not the least remarkable thing about this deadpan, deceptively haphazard ensemble comedy, a movie as much choreographed as directed, is the way that--at the final moment--the mist simply evaporates.
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80A subtle artist and a sharp observer, Martel manages a large cast with an ease that matches her skill at storytelling, within which psychological insight and social comment flow easily and implicitly.
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80It's a document that suggests that the road to hell is paved with bad communication skills.
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75The Holy Girl ends without resolution, but one isn't needed in this mature, thoughtful drama.
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75A film that leaves cinephiles breathless and the mainstream movie maniacs scratching their heads.
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75A hauntingly lyrical study of sexual awakening.
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75Young and bold and bristling with talent, Argentine director Lucrecia Martel has continued right where she left off in her feature debut.
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70A mystifying film that holds the audience in suspense over where it's going and what it might mean for almost its entire running time.
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70As Martel points out, the movie is about the "difficulties" and "dangers" of "differentiating good from evil," and it requires as well as rewards a fair amount of alertness from the viewer.
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63Alche has an amazingly expressive face and becomes such a magnetic presence that you'll feel a distinct need to rescue her.
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40In stripping her potentially lurid material of salacious appeal, Martel also makes it murky and oddly arid, a mind-numbing exercise rather than an experience.
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30Feels like something I know is supposed to be good for me, but that I just couldn't stomach.
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