Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Judy Blume’s landmark YA classic makes it to the screen five decades later, still packed with laughs and poignance and bitter truths and the enduring embarrassments of adolescence.

In addition to Rachel McAdams’s note-perfect evocation of maternal devotion and doubt as the main character’s mom—a performance completely worthy of an Oscar—there’s terrific work by Benny Safdie, Kathy Bates and Abby Ryder Fortson in the title role...

It's so innocent. It's really sweet.

This film knows what it's doing vis-à-vis teen movies as well as the sacred text [of the book].

A warm, emotionally agile adaptation of Judy Blume’s much-loved 1970 novel.

It’s nimbly directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, with an occasionally heavy hand of wholesomeness. But Fortson saves the day...

A wonderfully sweet adaptation of Judy Blume’s classic novel, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret delves into girlhood—with its epic firsts, discoveries, and lingering magic of childhood wonder...

Never saccharine or contrived, it shows that life can be challenging, no matter what one’s age, but that it can still be good.

In many ways, "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" works as a funny B-side to the fanaticism suffered by the Lisbon sisters, the victims of Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. [Full review in Spanish]

What the film does well is to establish that, in the absence of larger problems, anxiety is refocused on smaller ones.