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(1 - 20) of 20 OFCS Rating: 69% Fresh Page   1   B "a stark story with fully-drawn characters and an ending easily despised but not easily forgotten"   AboutFilm.com   Carlo Cavagna B "Breillat is a skilled director, who has created a troubling film that examines the simple pleasures of the human condition for young people and puts a complex spin on it."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 4/4 "Catherine Breillat's vision is so deceptively tranquil that love becomes indistinguishable from rape."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B "Few Hollywood child actors could pull off anything close to what Reboux and Mesquida achieve."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "Blunt and polarizing, Breillat's brilliant film captures something so vividly imaginative and compounding in a search for risky titilation at the expense of eager self-discovering teen virgins."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C+ "In spite of the fact that it's almost impossible to take your eyes from 'Fat Girl,' the film ultimately proves disturbingly obvious."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "Draws out the tensions and the competitiveness between the two adolescent sisters but steps over the line with a shocking and gratuitously violent finale."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "Represents one of the most honest and unvarnished looks at the harsh side of being a teenager since Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1.5/5 "Fit for a ghoul's night out."   Filmcritic.com   Jeremiah Kipp 0/100 "Don't encourage Breillat by watching her self-indulgent, utterly unenjoyable and shallow little exposé."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B ""Fat Girl" is no pleasure to watch, yet haunts in retrospect. "   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "A viciously insightful examination of the ways in which the bond between two teenage sisters is tested when they begin to realize just how powerful and double-edged a weapon beauty is, and how cruel the consequences of its unequal distribution can be."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 3/4 "It seems to be more of a cautionary tale about the sometimes deadly power of human sexuality."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten C+ "[The]from-left-field conclusion left me feeling cheated by the writer who seems bent on shocking the audience, not “finishing” the story."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 3/4 "Not a fun night out at the movies, but it has the weight of the broken wall, the burning roof and tower of personal violation and the rites of womanhood."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 4/4 Read review   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman Read review   Philadelphia City Paper   Cynthia Fuchs Read review   In the Dark   Jonathan F. Richards Read review   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline Read review   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 20) of 20 OFCS Rating: 69% Fresh Page   1