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  • 2021
  • Showtime Networks
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2021
  • Showtime Networks
  • 1 h 32 m
Cusp

Summary Three teenage girls open up about their intense emotional lives as they roam bonfire parties, childhood bedrooms, and fast food spots in the lazy days of a Texas summer. Struggling for agency in a world ruled by toxic masculinity, they rely on their friendships with one another to make the transition to the adult world.

Directed By: Isabel Bethencourt, Parker Hill

  • 2021
  • Showtime Networks
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2021
  • Showtime Networks
  • 1 h 32 m

Cusp

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
75
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Summary Three teenage girls open up about their intense emotional lives as they roam bonfire parties, childhood bedrooms, and fast food spots in the lazy days of a Texas summer. Struggling for agency in a world ruled by toxic masculinity, they rely on their friendships with one another to make the transition to the adult world.

Directed By: Isabel Bethencourt, Parker Hill

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
75
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17% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
75
83% Positive
5 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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100
Nov 22, 2021
In this mesmerizing, revelatory and deeply compassionate film, viewers are left with an indelible impression of girlhood at its most precarious and indomitable.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 12, 2021
Like any good sunset, the beauty to be found in “Cusp” is in between the darkness and the light, in the almost imperceptible shades of gray. Most important, it’s found in the bonds the girls have with each other.
By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 12, 2021
Cusp, with its dreamy imagery of golden sunsets and thunder-y twilights, empty Dairy Queen parking lots, and birds taking flight, is a mood-driven piece of work, sensitive to landscape and environment, and the girls' casual comments about rape (just one example) stand in stark contrast.
By Sheila O'Malley FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 11, 2021
A portrait of modern girlhood, this documentary ultimately becomes a bleak look at the normalization of sexual abuse among the very victimized young women.
By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW
63
Feb 2, 2021
At its best, the documentary’s aura of desolation suggests a verité version of Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
58
Nov 10, 2021
In walking the line between asking empathy for these girls and also using them as a sort of cautionary tale, Cusp fails to offer more than a somewhat surface-level understanding of toxic masculinity.
By Roxana Hadadi FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Kislevitz Films, Maiden Voyage, Wavelength, The 51 Fund, Cardel Entertainment, Irving Harvey
Release Date Nov 12, 2021
Duration 1 h 32 m
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Website https://www.cuspthefilm.com/
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Millennium Docs Against Gravity
• 2 Nominations
Champs-Élysées Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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