Holler

Jessica Barden gives a performance of great sensitivity and subtlety in Holler, an evocative depiction of the Sisyphus-like experience of poverty in a depressed economy.

Holler is a gorgeously-textured exploration of the way ruthless corporatism trickles down through each layer of a country, and a system, until it falls on the shoulders of a young girl and obscures her future. Jessica Barden pens sonnets with her silence.

Miss Barden is just wonderful in this movie, but so is everyone else.

Honest, gritty, and thoughtful.

Jessica Barden, Pamela Adlon and Gus Halper knock it out of the park with the girtty tale of escaping the trash heap of poverty for a better life. Kudos Nicole Reigel for sharing your heart!

While the broad strokes of Nicole Riegel's story might sound familiar, "Holler" finds its power in the particularities, especially Jessica Barden's unfussy and wholly believable performance.

A thoughtful look at steadfast determination — and the emotional weight of striving beyond what your family can offer.

it offers a clear-eyed undiluted vision of living under the poverty line. It’s gritty, authentic, and without a ounce of pretense.

You can feel the harsh winter on your skin, feel the economic impacts of factories and businesses shutting down, and the exhaustion on people's faces has a way of taking over you.

A promising first feature from Nicole Riegel that's at times hard to watch, but theres also the beauty of human resilience and the warmth of sibling relationship. Jessica Barden with her sorrowful eyes delivers a poignant performance.