ARTS & CULTURE
Monday, March 9, 2015 11
A Trio of Film Reviews, Currently in Theatres
Surviving Adolescence: The Glorious Mechanics of Defiance
kendall grant › staff writer
Girlhood (2014) 3/4
Bold, brawling, beautifully observed, and acted with
wonderful conviction, Girlhood is a blast of oxygen
to the coming-of-age genre; an energetic, hugely
uplifting, and fascinatingly textured film that’s
both a lament for sweetness lost and a celebration of
wisdom and identity gained, often at the very same
moment.
Fed up with an abusive family situation, dead-end
school prospects,