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2020
R
IFC Films
1 h 42 m

2020
R
IFC Films
1 h 42 m

Summary Johana Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a bright, quirky, 16-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off...

Comedy

Directed By: Coky Giedroyc

Written By: Caitlin Moran

2020
R
IFC Films
1 h 42 m

2020
R
IFC Films
1 h 42 m

How to Build a Girl

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 26 Critic Reviews

69

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 15 User Ratings

6.0

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Summary Johana Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a bright, quirky, 16-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off...

Comedy

Directed By: Coky Giedroyc

Written By: Caitlin Moran

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 26 Critic Reviews

73% Positive
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27% Mixed
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Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 26 Critic Reviews

73% Positive
19 Reviews

27% Mixed
7 Reviews

0% Negative
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May 8, 2020

How to Build a Girl is an incredibly fun movie.

By Lorry Kikta FULL REVIEW

Sep 15, 2019

What a thoroughly likeable and funny film.

By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

User Reviews

User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 15 User Ratings

53% Positive
8 Ratings

27% Mixed
4 Ratings

20% Negative
3 Ratings

User Reviews

User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 15 User Ratings

53% Positive
8 Ratings

27% Mixed
4 Ratings

20% Negative
3 Ratings

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Chicago Tribune

May 6, 2020

This sincerely felt and utterly effervescent coming-of-age tale expresses a universal truth about being alive: that hopefully, you'll have the chance, and the awareness, to make and remake yourself, again and again, dusting off the old bricks you've got and forming them into something familiar but new.

By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW

May 6, 2020

The way it rushes from silly to vicious to sappy can put you in a tonal whirl. But it’s also fun, and not insignificant in the way it puts an unconventional heroine on screen and then gives her the agency to act both stupid and smart as she sees fit.

By Steve Pond FULL REVIEW

Sep 11, 2019

So even though the whole can feel a bit cutesy at times, there’s real weight beneath that façade.

By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW

Jul 20, 2020

If it fails to mine the deeper themes in this story about a working-class writer fighting to find her footing in the music industry, How To Build A Girl is a resounding success as a showcase of Feldstein’s capabilities in a leading role.

May 8, 2020

So it’s no small tribute to Feldstein — who really is something — to say that she’s the very best thing in How to Build a Girl despite being so wildly miscast. Her performance is a tour de force, even if it’s too forceful for either its own good or that of the movie.

By Mark Feeney FULL REVIEW

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Details

Production Company Film4, Lionsgate UK, Monumental Pictures, Tango Entertainment

Release Date May 8, 2020

Duration 1 h 42 m

Rating R

Genres

Comedy

Website https://www.ifcfilms.com/films/how-to-build-a-girl

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Awards

Toronto International Film Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

ReFrame

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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