metacritic.com: Girl Next Door, The

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

69 / 100

100	San Francisco Chronicle An intelligent, well-made film about a seemingly well-adjusted, likable and loquacious woman.
80	Los Angeles Times Insightful and thoughtful.
75	New York Daily News A fascinating fly-on-the-wall documentary.
75	San Francisco Examiner Revelatory.
70	TV Guide (Fugate's) portrait of Valentine/Baker is rich and compelling.
70	Film.com Ted Fry Fascinating.
70	Chicago Reader Challenges us to reconcile its snapshots of earnest entrepreneurs, colleagues, and fans with its long takes of her disillusionment.
70	LA Weekly Paul Cullum Even more than the invasive procedures of her day job, or the casual humiliation by the raging misogynists drawn to this business, there's a virulent self-hatred on display that is palpably painful to watch.
70	The New York Times Melancholy.
63	New York Post Despite inadequate editing and overreliance on bad background music, The Girl Next Door doesn't disappoint.
50	Village Voice Occasionally smirky.