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69
Critics' score based on 16 reviews.
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Garbus spent three years patiently mining for beauty in the ugliest of environments. The remarkable result stands as a challenge to anyone who would have seen only the worst and walked right by.Full Review

Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

Despite similar excess, Garbus's follow-up to 2002's "The Execution of Wanda Jean" provides another powerful glimpse inside the American justice system.Full Review

Laura Sinagra
Village Voice

Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus spent three years shooting two teenagers living in a Maryland juvenile detention center. The completed film is called Girlhood and it feels as much a work in progress as its two troubled subjects do.Full Review

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

Garbus knows how to catch people at their most open, as they define their own types and simultaneously transcend them.Full Review

Noel Murray
The Onion A.V. Club

A fine example of what a filmmaker can achieve when she takes on a great subject and lets it play out with all the respect and attention it deserves.Full Review

Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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