Girls State
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"Girls State" follows 500 teenage girls from across Missouri as they gather for a week-long immersion in an elaborate laboratory of democracy, where they build a government from the ground up, campaign for office and form a Supreme Court to weigh the most divisive issues of the day. In "Girls State," the country is now deeper into democratic crisis, with civil discourse and electoral politics increasingly fragile under ever more extreme political polarization. As questions of race and gender equality in a representational democracy reach a fever pitch, these young women confront the complicated paths women must navigate to build political power. Following a distinctly female perspective and filled with teenage insecurity, biting humor and a yearning for true friendship, the young leaders of "Girls State" win hearts and minds - not just elections.
Cast
- Cecilia Bartin
- Faith Glasgow
- Tochi Ihekona
- Maddie Rowan
- Brooke Taylor
- Emily Worthmore
- Nisha Murali
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Metacritic
Jan 22, 2024
McBain and Moss capture all this with an unobtrusive eye. They have a real grasp of how to capture and frame candid interactions, how to pace this kind of near-reality television drama. It doesn’t hit its ambitious stride, though, until the end.
Jake Kring-Schreifels
The Film Stage
Jan 22, 2024
The film’s chief enjoyment is seeing how motivations transform, and character is forged, through the sliding doors of new people, victories and losses, and the sharpening of the young women’s disparate judgments on the genuinely disappointing differences between boys and girls state.
Adrian Horton
The Guardian
Jan 22, 2024
Girls State, like its predecessor, benefits from strong casting and ample access to the pint-sized political proceedings.
Dan Fienberg
The Hollywood Reporter
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