How to Build a Girl

Coming of age + Funny + Light + Endearing + Heart Warming = Lovely Movie (What are you waiting for? If you you are in the mood for something light to lift you up.. Watch it!)

How to Build a Girl is a modern day coming of age story. Feldstein owns the screen (and the accent), with witty comedic charm elevating a standard story. A good way to build a career for the lead.

I forgot to rate this after watching but from what I remember 2.3

Writing, Rock N Roll, rough family and an epic coming of age story for Johanna. She gains a career writing mean reviews of rockers' music, but in the process loses herself. It's a great, well-written ride.

A coming of age that seems familiar. Maybe a french film was similar. The girl is a clown, gifted and brave. We can only wonder at her adventures and misadventures that honestly go sexual as well, a rarity in the english world. Good jokes on that as well. The whole is very cheery even in the bad times. The extras shows people on set in great mood all the time. Well done!

Beanie Feldstein was great in this, but the movie as a whole just wasn't as compelling as a I wanted it to be. Worth watching for her performance, but I think I liked the book better.

Don't believe the critical consensus; the film was BAD. At the halfway mark, I was regretting ever putting this film in my watchlist and contemplated turning it off, but I stayed only because I enjoyed some of the other background characters and figured I'd wait the film out to see the end results. The main character tries and tries to impress and be funny and while a bit charming, she mostly just comes off as an eye roll. Plus, a story about a highschool girl becoming a music journalist literally sounds like the most boring film. There's definitely better films out there that deserves your attention rather than this cringe fest. P.S. regarding the ending...... I can see the gesture was coming from a place of love... but bitch, no one wants your fucking hair. I can't express enough how self indulgent this character is.

Super cute, I really liked it!

I was so looking forward to seeing this but was so disappointed. The titles say ‘based on a true(ish) story', and that's the problem – it just wasn't a very interesting story.

I think what I liked most about it is the concept. It feels like Beanie Feldstein's Ladybird variation. Other than that, it feels a tad fast paced. I would have loved to see more of an exploration of her family life and her relations with the people around her. Still, the flurry of acquaintances and thoughts that she goes through is definitely more in line with what a 16 year old girl would be thinking. I like that she goes through a series of highs and lows, it manages to really present that point that she's trying to make about reinventing one's self over and over. In the end, it's a pleasant watch with the occasional fizziness, but I wouldn't call it memorable (unlike the protagonist's look which is absolutely so).