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  ★★★½ review by davidehrlich on Letterboxd

  The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is officially dead, and the Girl with a Cracked iPhone Screen has taken her place. That’s not as catchy (it kind of sounds like the least exciting Stieg Larsson novel of all time), but it still feels like progress. The old trope was just a foil for some forlorn male protagonist, less of an actual person than an adorkable fairy godmother whose sole purpose in life was to restore a sense of self-worth to an aimless dude who forgot how to generate his own. The new trope, on the other hand, is alive — she creates her own context.

  Usually a twenty something who is falling short of her potential, The Girl with a Cracked iPhone Screen is a mess, she doesn’t have a ton of money (shout out to the gig economy), and she makes an audience of millennials feel comparatively stable. Odds are, she wants to be a comedian. Or a journalist. Or maybe she has no idea what she wants to be, and is just totally captivated by how Greta Gerwig can waltz through life like she never has to choose. It doesn’t matter, the important thing is that she’s the lead character in her own story. The Girl with a Cracked iPhone Screen is every bit as scatterbrained and self-possessed as her predecessor, but if she purely exists in relation to some guy, she only does so at the beginning of the movie, before she’s embarked on the kind of personal journey that Manic Pixie Dream Girls only ever got to facilitate.

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  ★★★★ review by iana on Letterboxd

  this dropped on netflix today but you probably didn’t know because netflix only likes to promote their shitty originals!! anyway, noël wells is a delight and i’m in love with her

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  ★★★½ review by flo! on Letterboxd

  there was so much sexual tension between emily and jen, the fact that they didn't hook up is actually homophobic...
  
  but besides that, love me some aesthetically pleasing indie film with clever and relatable texts, written and directed by a woman.

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  ★★★★ review by yazz 🦕 on Letterboxd

  films with this 'i'm learning to be an adult and i'm trying to do the thing i love for a living but its not really working out financially and i don't think i really understand myself or other people' kinda vibe are some of my favourites. it's like seeing myself four or five years in the future.

  i loved the way this was shot and her (two?) outfits and it was just a really nice easy watch! i'm currently sat on my friends sofa bc i'm the only one awake after our gathering last night. i've tidied his kitchen, made food, a cup of tea, more food and now i'm not too sure what to do with myself.

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  ★★★½ review by Melissa 🎃 on Letterboxd

  Me irl. But I'm not pretty or skinny, just a mess.

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