Tons of accolades to this film. Not as crazily in love with this movie as Newsday critic John Anderson who wrote: The gay coming-of-age story's been done, but "Pariah" has something fresh to say, largely about the knotty complexities of love, and how they might keep someone in the closet: How badly do you need to be free, to hurt the people you love? And in his New York Times article, film critic A.O. Scott wrote that to watch Adepero Oduye play Alike “is to experience the thrill of discovery.” Scott continued by saying that “Pariah has a point to make, and a point of view to argue, but it also, above all, wants to illuminate an individual universe of meaning and emotion.”

Really good movie. Wonderful cast, writing, direction. Lots of moving scenes. RECOMMEND

Excellent performances and writing make what could have been just another coming out story something special. A very full 90 minutes that is neither rushed nor hard to watch. Highly recommended. Transcends age and race demographics.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS FILM. I LIKED HOW THEY SHOWED EXACTLY HOW AGGRESSIVE LESBIANS LIVE THEIR LIVES AND THE HARDSHIPS THEY Face BECAUSE OF THEIR SEXUALITY. ITS A MUST SEE!!!!

A powerful movie! Sexual identity and race collide in a young teenager's life. I will watch this movie again.

Unbelievable acting and writing. I think everyone should see this movie. It's one of those movies that provokes thought and conversation.

Yes, it's yet ANOTHER coming out story, but the milieu is so finely drawn, and the writing so fresh, that one overlooks the "same-old, same-old" trajectory. Likewise the performances, which keep the whole thing from falling off the precipice. Not as dynamic and stylish as "Precious", but perhaps it's not truly a fair comparison, as that subject matter was absolutely Dickensian and hallucinatory, and "Pariah" is middle-class and "slice of life". But do see it. This film is tight, well-made and heartfelt. Bravo.

I don't usually go in for dyke dramas, but this is simply the best coming of age movie I have seen in years, maybe ever. The fact that the person coming out is a girl and a black girl at that only makes it more astonishing. This writer/director does a lot to avoid cliches while still telling a story familiar to so many of us. There is a lot of humor and joy here. The most searing moment occurs after the mother realizes her child is a lesbian and they are reunited after several days; the daughter says, "I love you, Mom." Silence. "I said, I love you." The mother picks-up her bible and as she's leaving says to the daughter, "I'll pray for you." To me, the bullying that gay kids get from their parents is far, far worse than any camera in a dorm room senario.

I didn't get to catch this film at Film Streams, and didn't have to wait too long for my turn with the library loan. It is such a good film, and it's remarkable in the fact that the story centers around a black teen. The film takes on the innocent eyes of this girl who is trying to find her way to true self discovery. It's a low budget gem, that almost makes the gauntlet, save for a part of the ending climatic turn that seemed to be a last ditch effort to give a happy ending to the film.

A poignant film about a teen's struggle to find her identity.