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How to Build a Girl

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A smart and ambitious teen reinvents herself as a music critic.
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Critics Consensus

Led by Beanie Feldstein's charming performance, How to Build a Girl puts a disarmingly earnest spin on the familiar coming-of-age comedy formula.

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Clarisse Loughrey Independent (UK) 12/09/2020
3/5
Feldstein's charms are brilliantly weaponised here. Go to Full Review
Robbie Collin Daily Telegraph (UK) 11/22/2020
2/5
The strong, distinctive, individual voice you keep hoping to hear never breaks through. Go to Full Review
Kimber Myers Crooked Marquee 11/16/2020
B
It's not subtle, but How to Build a Girl shouldn't be a quiet movie; it's as loud and full of life as its central character ... Go to Full Review
Calum Cooper In Their Own League 07/14/2024
3/5
“How to Build a Girl” has a lot going on in its favour. It may perhaps be a bit overstuffed for some tastes, but its heart is consistently in the right place in spite of this. Go to Full Review
Jason Flatt But Why Tho? A Geek Community 01/17/2023
8/10
Feldstein has proven to be a master of the genre and How to Build a Girl is worth watching for her performance alone. Go to Full Review
Dallas King Flick Feast 11/12/2022
1/5
For a film where the central character has to develop a unique voice in order to stand out, the final product is crushingly formulaic... The result is a movie that resembles an album of terrible cover versions of your favourite songs. Go to Full Review
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Albert W 11/24/2024 Meh... not bad but not that great either. See more 07/11/2022 Coming of age + Funny + Light + Endearing + Heart Warming = Lovely Movie (What are you waiting for? If you you are in the mood for something light to lift you up.. Watch it!) See more 07/18/2021 I forgot to rate this after watching but from what I remember 2.3 See more @jeroduptown 07/04/2021 Writing, Rock N Roll, rough family and an epic coming of age story for Johanna. She gains a career writing mean reviews of rockers' music, but in the process loses herself. It's a great, well-written ride. See more 05/20/2021 Beanie Feldstein was great in this, but the movie as a whole just wasn't as compelling as a I wanted it to be. Worth watching for her performance, but I think I liked the book better. See more adam b 03/29/2021 Don't believe the critical consensus; the film was BAD. At the halfway mark, I was regretting ever putting this film in my watchlist and contemplated turning it off, but I stayed only because I enjoyed some of the other background characters and figured I'd wait the film out to see the end results. The main character tries and tries to impress and be funny and while a bit charming, she mostly just comes off as an eye roll. Plus, a story about a highschool girl becoming a music journalist literally sounds like the most boring film. There's definitely better films out there that deserves your attention rather than this cringe fest. P.S. regarding the ending...... I can see the gesture was coming from a place of love... but bitch, no one wants your fucking hair. I can't express enough how self indulgent this character is. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A smart and ambitious teen reinvents herself as a music critic.
Director
Coky Giedroyc
Producer
Debra Hayward
Screenwriter
Caitlin Moran
Production Co
Film 4, Lionsgate, Monumental Pictures
Rating
R (Some Teen Drinking|Sexual Content|Language Throughout)
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
British English
Release Date (Streaming)
May 8, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA)
$70.5K
Runtime
1h 42m
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