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2015 · drama

A Girl Like Her

Directed by Amy S. Weber1h 31m2015
ElsewhereIMDb7.07kRT65%Metacritic54
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Heavy, kinetic, measured drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Sophomore year has been a nightmare for Jessica Burns. Relentlessly harassed by her former friend Avery Keller, Jessica doesn't know what she did to deserve the abuse from one of South Brookdale High's most popular and beautiful students. But when a shocking event changes both of their lives, a documentary film crew, a hidden digital camera, and the attention of a reeling community begin to reveal the powerful truth about A Girl Like Her.

Our read · A Girl Like Her (2015) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a bullying conversation-starter that humanizes both victim and bully.

ends bittersweetit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upsuicide themedrug use

Skip it tonightYou are not ready for suicide attempt scenes and hospital trauma tonight.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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