Very Good Girls

Name: Very Good Girls
Genre: Drama
Released: July 25, 2014
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 35

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Tribeca Film | Release Date: July 25, 2014 | R

Summary: Best friends Lily (Dakota Fanning) and Gerry (Elizabeth Olsen), home for one last New York summer, make a pact to lose their virginity before leaving for college. But when they both fall for the same handsome artist (Boyd Holbrook) and Lily starts seeing him in secret, a lifelong friendship is tested. [Tribeca Film]

Director: Naomi Foner

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 91 min

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Jesse Hassenger

Jul 23, 2014

The casting isn’t all together unconvincing: Olsen and Fanning’s collective ability to project intelligence beyond their years works both ways, allowing them to play both precocious youths and youthful adults. But Very Good Girls catches them in between those stages, and the effect isn’t evocative so much as muddled. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Jul 24, 2014

You can only imagine how much stronger the movie might have been had it fleshed out subsidiary dramas whose outlines are barely discernible. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Jul 28, 2014

The film never quite reconciles the banality of this love triangle with its far more interesting depiction of the rest of these characters’ lives. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Jul 24, 2014

Despite a finely wrought lead performance by Dakota Fanning, the drama feels more like the stuff of a mild — and dated — YA novel than an involving exploration of female experience. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Susan Wloszczyna

Jul 25, 2014

All in all, Very Good Girls is a very bad excuse to subject those of us who have enjoyed Fanning ever since 2001’s "I Am Sam" to seeing her flash her bare fanny, fondle herself provocatively and cavort in her underwear for no dramatic purpose. Yes, she should be allowed to grow up onscreen. But without a story that justifies it, it just feels sad and desperate. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

Jul 22, 2014

Very Good Girls is a film one wants to like but can't. It just doesn't work. Read full review

Alissa Simon

Jun 7, 2014

The screenplay is so vapid and cliched, and the casting so terrible, that viewers may wind up entertaining themselves with other thoughts. Read full review

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LeZee

Apr 24, 2016

Love triangle when the friendship is the only thing that's standing in between.

Is it about the good girls? Looks like that way until the summer break before these two friends get going for the freshman year college. So they decide to lose their virginity, but they both fall for a sameLove triangle when the friendship is the only thing that's standing in between.

Is it about the good girls? Looks like that way until the summer break before these two friends get going for the freshman year college. So they decide to lose their virginity, but they both fall for a same boy. Their's long standing friendship will be tested, the remaining film tells who lose the bet and how.

Good cast, but the story was from the Lily's perspective that played by Dakota Fanning. The boy and Elizabeth Oslen were kind of in the support roles. A simple love triangle story, but the actings were good. 'Little Birds', 'Ginger & Rosa', 'Violet & Daisy', 'Ghost World', 'Thirteen' name it. This kind of two thick friends theme is quite popular, but mostly average ones like this.

Well, it was not one of those movies of the year that I was expecting, so enjoyed what it provided in a limited scale. A few times I was annoyed too, for the turns in the narration, but the way it ended compromised my overall thought. This is a decent coming-of-age movie, which is not worth to suggest anyone openly, but you can give it a try if you get a shot.

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Tigerreviews03

Apr 3, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The film explores lily and Gerry, two friends who made an agreement to both lose their virginity in summer break.

the pros of this movie is the phenomenal acting from an a list cast highlights of this include Elizabeth Olsen's show of grief after the death of her father which was heart wrenching and rather accurate and the performance of Dakota fanning which nicely displays what its like to live in a cold home environment. in fact the other pro of this movie is the exploration into the characters home lives which gives insight into their actions and their personalities I just which the reproductions of their lives at home could have been further explored.

The cons where the poor character development which meant the ending was difficult to believe, the plot which was stale and basic and the fact that at no point was it easy to relate to these charecters.… Expand

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nijo101

Dec 7, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was first attracted to this film by the actors that were in it but as I started to watch I could tell right away that the immediate plot was stale and frustrating. It all starts and ends with the two main characters played by the lovely Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen where the obvious theme of sexual explorative college bound friends is blatantly pushed upon us. At no point during this coming of age "let's lose our virginity" film did I feel remotely connected to any character. The directing is so horrible that I felt like I was watching plot that had no flow but simply events that happened along the way until they stopped happening and the film ends. Essentially I came to the realization that after watching 2 sexually frustrated girls go from liking the same guy to one of them having a relationship with him and keeping it a secret from the other to fighting their family issues by playing around with this poor innocent likeable guy. In the end the only thing I got out of this badly directed film and plot is that **** be crazy!… Expand

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