{"id":2463120,"date":"2026-06-17T01:49:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2463120"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:49:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:49:57","slug":"girls-like-girls-review-adaptation-captures-the-feeling-of-first-love-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/girls-like-girls-review-adaptation-captures-the-feeling-of-first-love-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Girls Like Girls\u2019 review: Adaptation captures the feeling of first love | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Coley (Maya da Costa) is the new girl in a small Oregon town; she\u2019s quiet and introverted, with a fellow teen observing that she has \u201csad eyes.\u201d Those expressive eyes soon find their way to Sonya (Myra Molloy), a popular girl with an on-and-off boyfriend (Levon Hawke), a fondness for drinking and a way of looking at Coley that seems to make time fall away. It\u2019s summer 2006 \u2014 you can feel, and almost see, the soft heat in the air \u2014 and soon the two girls are inseparable, perpetually exchanging AIM messages and painting each other\u2019s nails. Coley is, quickly and swimmingly, in love; Sonya is … well, Coley isn\u2019t sure, like so many things that teenagers aren\u2019t yet sure of.<\/p>\n

The gentle, assured teen drama \u201cGirls Like Girls,\u201d directed and co-written by Hayley Kiyoko in her feature film debut, has had a long journey to the screen, beginning as a song, a 2015 viral music video<\/a> and a 2023 bestselling novel. (There\u2019s one significant change between the video and the movie: Sonya\u2019s boyfriend, in the latter, figures far less in the plot.) Like nearly all teen love stories, it\u2019s a rather bumpy road for Coley and Sonya: Sonya is all in until their first kiss, which is a long time coming \u2014 and which leaves Sonya panicked about what it means for her identify, and a vulnerable Coley heartbroken at the rejection. Coley, we learn, is already haunted by something else entirely: Her mother is gone, and she lives with her father (Zach Braff) who calls her Nicole and seems a polite stranger.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lot for a teen \u2014 and a performer\u00a0\u2014 to carry, particularly when the character is so reserved, but da Costa manages to convey a world of emotion in Coley\u2019s quiet gaze. Molloy is often mesmerizing as Sonya, whose preening confidence occasionally evaporates like breath on a mirror, and Braff is quite touching as a man who knows he hasn\u2019t been the father he should be, but is trying, before it\u2019s too late, to do better. \u201cThere\u2019s so much to love about yourself,\u201d he gently tells Coley, in a line that encapsulates the film\u2019s journey.<\/p>\n

\u201cGirls Like Girls\u201d has a few slow moments, but Kiyoko beautifully captures the looseness of teens hanging out, the vague endlessness of summer when you\u2019re young and the shimmery, shivery feeling of first love.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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