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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90VarietyCourtney HowardVarietyCourtney HowardHart and her team have carefully and craftily built the ultimate sequel. The narrative advances the perky protagonist’s internal and external objectives with a gentle yet profound arc; technical contributions complement her journey, both visually and sonically. The film never betrays its lead character in any fashion.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperHollywood Stargirl is smart, family-friendly entertainment with the perfect combination of real-world plausibility and magical escapism.
- 70Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayNothing that happens in Hollywood Stargirl is consequential or surprising. But the cast is likable, the music is good (featuring winning covers of canonical California songs like Brian Wilson’s “Love and Mercy” and Cass Elliot’s “Make Your Own Kind of Music”) and, as with “Stargirl,” there’s a bone-deep decency to this sequel that’s pretty disarming.
- 67IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandHollywood Stargirl, for all its charm, doesn’t quite hang together as a complete story. It feels like an episode, a vignette, a tiny slice of Stargirl’s remarkable life suddenly turned into a filmmaking parable she’d likely balk at.
- 50The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanThe New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanHollywood Stargirl could be seen as a filmmaking exercise. How do you build a story around a character who was auxiliary by design? Hart’s solutions are manifold, but her most effective one is to quash the grating altruism that drove Stargirl in the first movie.
- 50Screen RantFerdosa AbdiScreen RantFerdosa AbdiSure, the film may feel somewhat tepid in places, and it meanders, but the overwhelming wholesomeness of the picture will make one embrace its simplicity.