Very Good Girls
Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
2 April 1962, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
11 November 1962, Roswell, New Mexico, USA
18 December 1990, New York City, New York, USA
29 October 1947, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
9 July 1980, Moscow, Russia
7 March 1993, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, USA
25 July 1984, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
10 November 1999, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 September 1981, Prestonsburg, Kentucky, USA
16 February 1989, Sherman Oaks, California, USA
7 March 1971, Belleville, Illinois, USA
3 December 1975, New York City, New York, USA
16 April 1954, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
23 February 1994, Conyers, Georgia, USA
August 16, 2014
Appreciably different and well acted throughout, and sincerely engaging in patches... [but] ultimately succumbs to sigh-inducing artificiality.August 10, 2014
The film treats a complicated experience with painstaking simplicity.August 01, 2014
Bland, brooding coming-of-age drama wastes talented cast.September 26, 2014
"Very Good Girls" is far from a perfect movie, but I enjoyed its spirit and atmosphere, even as I objected to some of the key elements.July 24, 2014
One insurmountable problem is that the stars, especially Ms. Olsen, 25, are too old for their roles. Another is that the movie has more characters than it can begin to accommodate in 91 minutes.February 28, 2016
We should forget the contrivances because we're wrapped up in how the girls act during the aftermath, but we aren't given that privilege.July 24, 2014
Disappointingly, Foner's young heroines are defined primarily by their reactions to other people. It's a great credit to Olsen and, especially, Fanning that they manage to make these characters vibrant and sympathetic anyway.July 25, 2014
Very Good Girls has a breezy yet bittersweet, vaguely nostalgic vibe.September 22, 2014
Youthful cliches trump insight in Very Good Girls.July 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.July 23, 2014
A drama that feels like an old person's idea of what young people are like.July 25, 2014
Will any film this year feature a moment more pretentious than David asking Lily to read a few lines of Sylvia Plath's poetry before their first kiss? That guy deserves a smack to the kisser all right.