Very Good Girls
- gentle
- intimate
Neutral, steady, gentle drama / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
Our read · Very Good Girls (2013) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Very Good Girls
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a Brooklyn summer about friendship, first love, and the mess between them.”
Skip it tonight — You cannot stomach teen sexuality and a love triangle that feels thinly drawn.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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