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The Diary of a Teenage Girl

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Drama · Romance · Comedy · 2015

Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.

Movie details

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

“Sex, drugs, and recordings of it all.”

2015 Drama · Romance · Comedy 1h 42m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.8 / 10

34.2K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

95 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

87 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.6 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over The Diary of a Teenage Girl?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Marielle Heller

Written by

Marielle Heller

Bel Powley

Bel Powley

Minnie Goetze

Kristen Wiig

Kristen Wiig

Charlotte Worthington

Alexander Skarsgård

Alexander Skarsgård

Monroe Rutherford

Christopher Meloni

Christopher Meloni

Pascal MacCorkill

Austin Lyon

Austin Lyon

Ricky Wasserman

Madeleine Waters

Madeleine Waters

Kimmie Minter

Margarita Levieva

Margarita Levieva

Tabatha

Court is in session

Put The Diary of a Teenage Girl on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.