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- 2020
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 43 m
- 2020
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 43 m
Summary Sarah (Alison Brie), a socially isolated arts and crafts store employee, finds herself more content in the company of horses and supernatural crime shows than people. But when a series of strangely surreal dreams upend the simplicity of her waking life, Sarah struggles to distinguish her visions from reality.
Directed By: Jeff Baena
Written By: Alison Brie, Jeff Baena
- 2020
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 43 m
- 2020
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 43 m
Horse Girl
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6.4
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Summary Sarah (Alison Brie), a socially isolated arts and crafts store employee, finds herself more content in the company of horses and supernatural crime shows than people. But when a series of strangely surreal dreams upend the simplicity of her waking life, Sarah struggles to distinguish her visions from reality.
Directed By: Jeff Baena
Written By: Alison Brie, Jeff Baena
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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47% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
53% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
61
47% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
53% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Brie’s performance is open and honest and disturbing and funny and lovely and resonant. The work is so good and so convincing that even when Sarah is spouting the craziest of her mad theories, there’s a small part of us that wonders if Sarah’s truth is the real truth. We certainly believe SHE believes.
The sincerity that Brie brings to her full-fledged embodiment of mental illness is major, and in turn helps Horse Girl overcome its tricky storytelling.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 48 User Ratings
6.4
54% Positive
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
29% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
17% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 48 User Ratings
6.4
54% Positive
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
29% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
17% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
There is just so much you can do in 90 min. But this movie gets a lot done and takes the viewer all over the place. We are not sure what is true or not, but Allison Brie is captivating, and the action always rings true. Yes, it is weird, but in a good way. Good job taking a chance on this messy content and pulling it off. If you like straightforward easy to follow narratives, probably better skip it. If you like movie that take a chance and great acting, you will like it most likely.
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Just a brilliant movie. Moving, intense and completely enthralling. A bleak honest but beautiful look at mental illness. Allison Brie deserves an Oscar right now.
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No one in her world can explain her lack of self-regard, her increasingly strange behavior, all symptoms that lead to scenes of riveting tension, much of it due to the subtlety Ms. Brie brings to the role of Sarah—notwithstanding a deluge of schlock involving paranormal visitations.
Whether you buy the ending or not is something between you and your own personal suspension-of-disbelief deity, but you can’t say that the star doesn’t commit to selling the character’s arc 100 percent. Insanity suits her.
Brie’s delicate performance nearly rescues both Sarah and “Horse Girl” from falling into the awkward traps it sets for itself, hedging on the tough stuff in favor of weirdness for its own sake, faux-arty style over anything that could offer the slightest interest in healing, for either its star or her story.
Taken as a whole, the approach doesn’t work and ultimately comes across as more off-putting than successful.
The ambition of Horse Girl ultimately gets the better of it, turning what could be a dark but insightful depiction on signs missed in a mental health crisis into an agreement on one’s madness – a game of what’s real, and what’s not, that feels unsettling to play.
As someone would has suffered from acute bouts of paranoia schitzophrenia, and had grandparents who suffered from Dementia, I watched this film in awe at its accurate portrayal of mental health issues.
Alison Brie's performance is incredible and the music and artistic direction all combine to produce a must watch movie.
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This film tried so hard to be quirky but it was just a nightmare. The first act was good but anything that came after that did not make sense at all.
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Just a bad all around movie. Poor character development - really just one main character (the girl). The plot leads to either a story about mental illness, alien abduction, cloning, or time travel. The final scene leaves one to decide if this really was an alien abduction or mental illness. I know which one I believe it was - won't spoil it here. Lots of 'weirdness' throughout the whole movie and a plot I didn;t really care about. A lot of fast forwarding to get to the end quicker.
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