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Metascore®Generally favorable reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
Skillfully entwines stories of three young women drifting in and out of a Jersey City juvenile detention center.
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Certainly not the first film to show how a crushing urban environment can make a sensible-sounding antidrug slogan like "just say no" seem like so much nonsense, but it's one of the strongest.
Bracing and remarkably compact drama, which invests some standard movie tropes of rough-and-tumble urban life with deep feeling and urgency.
A compelling albeit highly discouraging portrait.
On the Outs parses the hopes and terrors of blasted lives with an empathy that never cheapens into pity. The movie wounds as much as it heals, and that's its true power.
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