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A beautifully shot little film.

Reeking with authentic period atmosphere, a rich ska based soundtrack and featuring unshowy but solid performances.

While offering some notion of Beckett’s feelings towards key people in his life, his works feel very underrepresented.

A difficult film, and a film about difficult women.

With formal narration which captures the style of the period and similarly distinctive dialogue, the film quickly immerses viewers in its small but volatile world.

The film is in danger of resembling a caricature of working class life, circa 1960

There is magic here.

As a portrait of friendship, at that critical moment when defences are down and truth hurts too much, Girls Night comes through as the genuine article.

With fantastic sound design and fierce strings, Janisse does a fine job of establishing the atmosphere.

In his desire to inform our heads, Leigh often forgets that he needs to engage our hearts us as well.

A rambling tale that mixes drama with gentle comedy.

The film began as a series of web shorts and that episodic hit and miss nature endures.