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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Village VoiceSerena DonadoniVillage VoiceSerena DonadoniBrowning captures Eve's weariness and enthusiasm, and her lovely voice and crisp delivery gives Murdoch's labored lyrics a vulnerable immediacy.
- 64Film.comJames RocchiFilm.comJames RocchiMurdoch’s film is fraught with ambition and aspiration, but a little thin on talent and technique.
- 60The GuardianXan BrooksThe GuardianXan BrooksGod Help the Girl comes loose and easy, verging on the slipshod. It's warm and generous, verging on the sentimental; a film that crystallises the best and worst of Belle and Sebastian's songwriting skills.
- 60EmpireEmpireAs Marmite-y as Stuart Murdoch's music, you'll find it either winningly charming or irritatingly fey. Either way, its warmth shines through.
- 60The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayWhile Murdoch exhibits masterful control in a recording studio, he isn’t a natural-born filmmaker. Much of God Help The Girl feels haphazardly stitched together, with pieces missing or placed in the wrong order, as though Murdoch didn’t get all the footage he needed.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyIt will be up to viewers to decide whether God Help the Girl is ingratiatingly naive art, gratingly inept art, or a bit of both.
- 50Slant MagazineChris CabinSlant MagazineChris CabinStuart Murdoch clearly knows quite a bit about crafting pop tunes, but the film's consideration of the work of songwriting is totally flippant.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe wistful pleasures are stretched awfully thin at almost two hours in a film that blurs the line separating self-irony from tiresome self-consciousness.
- 33The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezA major gaffe, God Help The Girl finds a great artist taking on a huge challenge and stumbling painfully on its ambition almost every step of the way.