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Resting on a love triangle played out by poorly drawn characters, Very Good Girls succeeds mainly in making viewers want a better project for Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen. Read Critics...
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Despite a finely wrought lead performance by Dakota Fanning, the drama feels more like the stuff of a mild - and dated - YA novel than an involving exploration of female experience. Full Review...
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Jul 25, 2014 · [Review] Very Good Girls. Jared Mobarak July 25, 2014. Writer/director Naomi Foner wants to tell us about the messiness of life through two eighteen-year old girls during their final summer before college.
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- It’s like falling in love with a brick wall.
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By Cliff Wheatley
Updated: Aug 16, 2021 11:58 pm
Posted: Jul 22, 2014 12:17 am
Naomi Foner’s Very Good Girls is a simple tale about two best friends fresh out of high school having their friendship challenged for the first time over the love of a boy. It’s certainly not an uncommon plot, but writer/director Foner is able to coax two strong performances out of Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen to bring the characters of Lilly and Gerry to life. Unfortunately, Very Good Girls suffers from some questionable choices as the film wears on and the object of the girls’ affection, a tool-cool-for-school Sylvia Plath-quoting artist named David (a stiff and utterly boring Boyd Holbrook), is so devoid of personality and so ripe with clichés that the girls falling for him in the first place is groan inducing.
The chemistry between Fanning and Olsen is strong, and their respective performances – Fanning as the rich, sheltered kid and Olsen as the free-spirited daughter of aging hippies – are charming and real. Lilly is clearly the viewpoint character, and her generally conservative attitude towards love and sex is reflected in her home life. Her parents (an awkwardly paired but workable Clark Gregg and Ellen Barkin) are both shrinks, yet no one in the household ever talks about their issues. Juxtaposed with Gerry’s freewheeling and open home life (played by the unlikely but charming couple of Richard Dreyfuss and Demi Moore), Foner plays the girls’ wants and needs against one another, each of them seeing what’s missing from their own lives in each other’s.But with Lilly being the POV character, we are really only shown this from her perspective. We’re told it’s the same for Gerry, but never see it. The more problematic issue is that we’re primarily only told about Gerry’s relationship with David, while we see his relationship with Lilly in full. The effect is damaging to Olsen’s character; it makes her seem delusional and suspiciously naïve. She’s in love with David yet there’s no reason for any of it, let alone that Holbrook might as well be a brick wall. He’s cold and distant in the scenes where we see them together, yet she talks like they’re falling madly in love.
Unfortunately, choices made later in the film put Lilly in a similar spot. Even their well-intentioned “falling in love” montage is bland. The point of the film seems to be to underscore the sisterhood of these characters, to strengthen their relationship after it’s torn apart, but along the way both of them are played so severely by the blandest boy in New York City and appear to learn nothing. Lump into the equation a sex scene unworthy of even a made-for-TV teen movie and the unbearable pretentiousness of David, and you’ve got a recipe for eye-rolling romance.
Stellar performances by most of the cast are dampened by a love story that isn’t palpable or interesting, due mostly to the scene-deadening performance of Boyd Holbrook and a script that doesn’t effectively resolve its conflicts. While the relationship between the two leads is charming, the movie in which it exists is anything but.
- Cliff Wheatley
Jul 25, 2014 · Drama. Romance. Tagline When we lose our innocence, we have to find ourselves. Best friends Lily (Dakota Fanning) and Gerry (Elizabeth Olsen), home for one last New York summer, make a pact to lose their virginity before leaving for college.
Jan 23, 2013 · During the summer before they leave for college, two best friends fall for the same guy in the really bad drama “Very Good Girls,” which marks the feature directing debut of onetime ...
