Support the Girls

One of the pleasures of Support the Girls is that it explores the constant fender-benders of sex, race, class, and age without ever coming off as preachy or lecturing.

Support the Girls is a humble, restrained movie, at times aimless as it moves along, but never devoid of keen observations.

Bujalski frames most of Support the Girls as an almost real-time delineation of chaos, but his storytelling elegance — delicate, nearly invisible foreshadowing; cogent evocations of backstory — adds reflective layers to the surface anarchy.

The film celebrates the unrecognized willpower and perseverance that undergirds low-wage service work in this country.

A scrappy but soulful delight. Regina Hall brings everything to this nuanced and loving portrait of working women whose stories seldom make their way into the foreground of film.

This is another fine performance from Hall, who's given a good character to play by writer-director Andrew Bujalski.

Maybe it wouldn’t be so confusing if what passed as the film’s “resolution” involved something more than the antics of bratty anarchy. It’s impossible to support the girls on such shaky ground.

Feel-good little slice of life comedy buoyed by an excellent performance from Regina Hall and a surprisingly spry outing from Haley Lu Richardson. Don't know why it's rating is so low already.

it may not be glorifying for everyone.. Support The Girls Support The Girls is a character driven drama about a bunch of women surviving literally a week day of their life. Embracing the premise like never before, Bujalski's hands on execution of offering the insights with a personal touch of the characters communicates throughout the course of the feature to the audience. It is a subtle take on the marginal community that we all reside in, and so is its repercussions on the audience of its higher concept, it may not be glorifying for everyone. But as much as makers distract the audience and is proud of its ingenious methodology, contrary to popular belief, it is quite louder on repetitive terms. It tosses all possible various situations through character's perspective in order to make its definite point thoroughly clear. In order to do so, it shucks away its somewhat middle act with an arguably redundant sequences. But such compelling storytelling and euphoric energy behind the camera can be and should be given the benefit of doubt. The background may as well be daft with decent cinematography and editing that is saved by the camera work which again, offers personal touch making it more human than ever. The performance by the cast is on full throttle; especially Hall, since they are aware of the opportunity and stage they have marked, can factor a lot. Bujalski's execution is to the point and clearer than ever with a smarter script and even though familiar but not so explored structure makes it gripping and adaptive for the viewers. The three dimensional characters, layered thought provoking policies and fair confessions are the high points of the feature. Support The Girls may not be the game changer but if retold in a glorifying manner, it can be your "Thelma And Louise".

Frankly I really wanted this movie to please me more but I couldn't connect with the story at all and I mainly blame the narrative style and rhythm because the story is good, it's attractive but the film has a cadence that becomes to slow for its own good and the characters with the exception of those of Regina Hall and Haley Lu Richardson feel flat and anodyne. Recommended for a weekend as an option although it disappointed my expectations.

Hall is great; that much isn’t up for debate. And for half the runtime the “bunch of random events happening over the course of one day” narrative works. But then the film tries to get weird/indie/irrelevant for the sake of it, and Hall isn’t there to save the day.

When I want to watch a movie, I need to enjoy in this 2 hours of my time, "support the Girls" is the real meaning of wasting time, I thought I was watching a boring episode of worst TV show, it was meaningless movie, just showing Regina Hall as a manager and how she takes care of her girls!!! Really!! I have a message for the producers of this movie "If you are paying money for this level of the story, just call me I can give you something more interesting".