Cherry

What gives Cherry life beyond this moment is that central idea of facing change, and realizing that not making a decision is in itself a decision.

Ultimately, this film is less about her [Cherry] final decision than about how having these choices helps her figure out who she wants to be.

Dramatically convincing and enormously entertaining.

Making immediate her emotional and physical struggles as she explores whether or not to keep her baby, the film wins us over with an unwavering focus on its eponymous heroine’s coming-of-age journey.

Smart, sassy and never dumbing down the seriousness of its title character’s predicament as she faces the reality of an unwanted pregnancy, Cherry is a delight.

Cherry presents a delicate topic with a sympathetic perspective, but feels amateurish at times.

It's a beautifully written, thoughtful character study of a free spirit in a serious situation.

This superficially well-crafted movie feels short on substance even at 76 slim minutes. It’s the kind of enterprise in which more thought seems to have gone into the soundtrack than the script.

At a very brisk 76 minutes, Cherry is virtually a sketch, but one with so much energy and such carefully delineated, realistic relationships that it never feels slight.

Yes, choice can be difficult, but Cherry fortunately has a choice to make: The movie makes you wonder what would have happened had that not been the case.