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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60The DissolveJordan HoffmanThe DissolveJordan HoffmanPerfect Sisters may stand accused of being rife with tone-deaf stylistic choices, but the more positive spin is to call it a marginal film elevated, however inadvertently, by the strange specificity of its scenes.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfPerfect Sisters, which takes a dark, matricidal turn (inspired by an actual Toronto case), was never going to be a new "Heavenly Creatures." But give credit to director Stan Brooks for allowing his two former child stars some real meat to sink their teenage chops into.
- 60The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerMs. Breslin and especially Ms. Henley are quite good, elevating a film that seems like an oft-told tale.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceStanley M. Brooks's directorial debut's attempt to make sense of what happened falters by laboring to tick every item off the timeline checklist instead of focusing on who these Bathtub Girls were underneath the dysfunction.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe film is elevated by the quality of the performances, with Breslin and Henley movingly affecting as the closely bound sisters and Sorvino convincingly conveying her character’s inability to function.
- 50Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenLos Angeles TimesSheri LindenThe film owes whatever persuasiveness it has to the teen leads' sharp performances — their sisterly chemistry and their filial friction with an alcohol-addled mother, well played by Mira Sorvino.
- 40VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyStan Brooks’ first directorial feature provides scant psychological depth, drawing its characters and staging their incidents in crude fashion, despite superficial production gloss.
- 20New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThis kind of thing requires a velvet touch, though director Stanley M. Brooks hits only hammer-heavy notes.