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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80CineVueMartyn ConterioCineVueMartyn ConterioHusson’s film is first and foremost an appalling account of stomach-churning misogyny and the sickening horrors Kurdish women met at the hands of their vile captors.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawGirls of the Sun is a feminist war movie: impassioned, suspenseful, angry.
- 67The Film StageJordan RaupThe Film StageJordan RaupWhile it’s not as stylish as Husson’s Bang Gang, Girls of the Sun is just as assured. There’s a specific political message at its back and it expresses it without compromise for better or worse.
- 63Slant MagazinePat BrownSlant MagazinePat BrownWith its naked celebration of self-sacrificial combat and idealization of the soldier as an avenging angel, it strikes a tone redolent of old-school war propaganda.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerGirls of the Sun (Les Filles du soleil) is at once mildly harrowing and completely over-the-top, intermittently intense yet so unsubtle it winds up doing damage to its own worthy discourse.
- 60Time OutDave CalhounTime OutDave CalhounThere are powerful and enlightening scenes, and there’s a catchy energy to the battlefield action. But the immediacy and credibility of the women’s mission feels compromised by one-too-many corny moments, unconvincing dialogue and a sense of uncertainty on Husson’s part over whether she wants to take a poetic or realist approach to her tale.
- 58The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThe A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThis bombastic bid for respectability mostly left me thinking that their courageous, inspiring inspiration deserved a better movie, one with more nuanced plotting and a less overbearing score.
- 50Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallA mid-budget mis-fire after the director’s promising indie debut, Bang Gang, Girls of the Sun seems more concerned with staging sisterly bonding sessions amidst the rubble than in developing what might have been an intriguing story – about how war can reshuffle social and gender inequality.
- 40VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay WeissbergClearly the director’s positive impressions from her research made her want to create something that would generate popular sympathy for the cause, but writing a glorified TV movie wasn’t the way to go.