Girls Will Be Girls 2003

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: An often hilarious, always surprising 79-minute burlesque. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: While Day doesn't succeed in making us empathize with anyone on screen, he makes his characters definitely watchable and his dialogue crackles. Read more

Anita Gates, New York Times: The film is appropriately cynical, pleasantly camp and just fresh enough to be funny more often than not. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: There are more belly laughs here than belly flops. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: An unprecedented exercise in derangement. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Day and his cast have a lot of fun with their 80 minutes of screen time because they have the courage of their silliness and an uninhibited sense of humor. Read more

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Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News: Girls Will Be Girls is gross-out camp, much like the movies of John Waters. Read more

Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: Because the performances are so grounded, so weirdly real, these foibles take on unexpected poignancy, as if the actors and their director are suggesting degradation as a natural byproduct of loneliness. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: To appreciate Girls Will Be Girls to the max, it probably helps to have taken at least one semester of Screen Camp 101. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: What starts out amusing eventually becomes something of a drag. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: In just observing and accurately reproducing women's facial expressions and physical gestures, the men create a wonderfully absurd spectacle. Read more

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Alexis Soloski, Village Voice: While cries of misogyny are unwarranted (it's clear that no actual women were harmed in filming), cries of 'ewwwww!' are not. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Humor that takes as its apparent premise the assumption that all women are catty, sexually voracious, weight-obsessed whores ... is more than anyone in this day and age, even in the context of a cartoonish farce, should be expected to take. Read more