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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    New York Post | Lou Lumenick

    Big-Hearted and often quite funny if crudely made, Fat Girls cleverly subverts the clichs of high school comedies to serve an autobiographical story about an overweight gay teen in a small Texas town. Read full review

  • 63
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    Christian infuses this familiar story with gentle empathy, which goes a long way in balancing out the more amateurish choices. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times |

    Without insight, memorable dialogue or interesting characters, Fat Girls quickly wears thin. Read full review

  • 50
    TV Guide | Maitland McDonagh

    To call Christian's film unpolished is an understatement. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Dennis Harvey

    Wins no points for delicacy. Still, it does score some laughs. Read full review

  • 50
    Village Voice |

    This film goes to some lengths not to be another high-school movie, which means prom stinks and no one can sing. Given Fat Girls' honesty, and its delicately drawn examples of social hopelessness, the sudden, sugary, puzzling finale feels out of character. It's as though the film forgot how to talk to us. Read full review

  • 42
    The Onion A.V. Club | Noel Murray

    In the words of his own character, this young filmmaker hasn't found his "inner fat girl." Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Ends up stranded between two concepts, either of which might have yielded a more satisfying film. Read full review

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