Support the Girls

The story meanders near the end, but the anticlimax can't quite dispel the movie's warm eccentricity.

A remarkably compassionate portrait of American womanhood that inspires hope without denying reality.

A kind of social realism...there's a real feeling of family, but it's also a workplace, where it's possible for people to be mistreated...stripped-down and unexpected.

Bujalski uses the past to make sense of the present... and the future.

Hall is a revelation (dominant in nearly every scene), and the rooftop climax is fittingly cathartic.

While the approach can feel episodic, like the central character Lisa, this is storytelling that has a warm and accepting embrace of its girls.

...a bitter, caustic but also very funny and wise film about how women have to deal with men’s vanities to eke out a living…has genuine insight to offer about how women might just about overcome a workplace system that’s clearly rigged in favour of men.

The opening credits lets you know that the film is operating on a shoestring budget, but within five minutes I was already invested in this slice-of-life working class comedy.

Who knew Hollywood could come up with a slice of middle America that isn’t a retread storyline and that comes from a fresh perspective.

Support the Girls is a considerate and understated indie comedy, capable of drawing out empathy for women, whose situations are less than ideal, by giving them an intimately human face.