Girls State

Girls State isn’t quite the explosive takedown and critique of the program that it could be, but it does explore the program's limitations cogently...

The politics lean conservative, but the transformations that occur go beyond ideology.

I wish there had been a little bit more of the get-togethers so we could hear them talk a little more informally, but it's a fascinating movie.

At first it proves every bit as gripping. Then it gets more so.

When thinking about the whole American experiment, nearly 250 years in, it can seem hard to find reasons for optimism. But “Girls State” offers a welcome and necessary helping of it.

In this thought-provoking documentary, girls get the chance to play politics – and their debates about abortion are startlingly nuanced

[There's a] smart, impassioned, high stakes spirit that perme­ates the new documentary, Girls State.

Girls State feels slight and surprisingly unaware&#59; even its own subjects seem determined to break free of the narrative that the camp and the directors are trying to box them in to. Compared to Boys State, this is a surprising misfire.

The would-be Hilary Clintons and Kamala Harrises immediately clock that they’re held to different standards than the boys.

You might be eniticed by the wild incongruity of cupcake stations alongside very adult discussions, but you’ll most certainly stay because of how it offers an intimate, in-depth, potentially inspiring platform for a generation’s hopes and fears.