Takes familiar material and develops it with such tact and skill that we find ourselves moved and sort of amazed at the same time.
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

It’s a stroke of genuine artistry to craft a movie in a raw and glancing documentary style that is not merely ’’authentic’’ but dramatic…’Our Song’’ evokes the freedom, as well as the casual devastation, of those who have grown up expecting nothing from life but the next moment. By the end, we understand in our bones how a righteous, impoverished teenager could come to believe that having a baby would bring her redemption.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

The movie is superbly matter-of-fact in depicting subjects as different as the emotional cluelessness of proudly footloose teen-age boys, the level of ominous and explosive noise that the characters have learned to live with, the inability of well-meaning social workers to alter family traditions. The director Jim McKay’s achievement is to show the three girls’ diverging paths not as a defeat for friendship but as a transition to new possibilities.
THE NEW YORKER

Mr. McKay’s direction is so natural and unforced, and the performances of his three lead actresses are so smart and understated, that the depth and originality of what they have accomplished emerges only in hindsight. Don’t miss this one
THE NEW YORK TIMES