Girl

Thorne's capable of more than this, even if the question of how much more remains unresolved.

Though it ultimately amounts to a routine revenge thriller, Faust coaxes impressive acting from his leads and demonstrates skillful promise for future efforts.

A wobbly and desperately unimaginative mesh-up of contemporary noir and a Southern-fried tale of ancestral trouble.

Thorne, however, remains compelling throughout, and even when "Girl" struggles to zero in on what it's trying to say, its star stays grounded in the deeper meanings.

A slickly made, effectively atmospheric B-movie suspenser that marks a promising feature debut for its writer/director, who also plays a featured role.

[Girl is] an unfortunately haphazard work that attempts to shape itself according to Thorne's presence

Bella Thorne delivers a performance full of grit, unvarnished emotion, and commanding physical presence.

The gritty female fronted thriller is a fun trend that blew me away in films like Blood on Her Name.... But, done wrong, it can feel like a shallow female centric film that can't avoid a male focused narrative. That's what happened in Girl.

...there isn't enough substance to make Faust's stylish choices mean something, so this thriller comes across as more empty that gratifying.

A dark modern-day western that writer and director Chad Faust injects with gritty character and strong sense of place.