Game Girls

It's a one-day-at-a-time kind of portrait that's dispiriting, unsettling and undeniably authentic.

Game Girls doesn't really go beyond its fly-on-the-wall approach to its heroines, offering us lots of intimacy but nothing that really sets its story within a greater social or political context.

There is a lot that Game Girls forces the viewer to grapple with... but the danger of focusing on and fetishizing a single story is that the audience is encouraged to extrapolate that this is the experience for everyone in Skid Row.

The unfiltered, and at times unsettling film forces us to acknowledge that the crisis of homelessness is not just faceless statistics.