Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields

"CRITIC’S PICK. Absorbing…a biography of Shields with lucid insights into the culture that shaped her. Builds a mood of reminiscence gone rancid, and suggests a generation of women transformed by the prototypes society boxed them into."
Natalia Winkelman, The New York Times

"Extraordinary."
Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone

"Powerful and empowering, a portrait of a constantly transforming woman on the journey to finally understanding her identity.”
Kevin Fallon, The Daily Beast

"Triumphant."
Sheri Flanders, Chicago Reader

"An unflinching doc that charts a journey from victim to survivor."
Courtney Howard, The AV Club

"Inspiring."
Steven Prokoy, Third Coast Review

"CERTIFIED FRESH. An exposé of ugly cultural forces, Pretty Baby is disturbing and triumphant in equal measure."
Rotten Tomatoes

"Supremely well-crafted. A documentary of fascinating depth that holds our voyeuristic image culture up to the light. Lana Wilson's accomplished film traces how Brooke Shields' career was at the forefront of our culture's sexualization of girls, and shows what it was like for her to live a life inside that image."
Owen Gleiberman, Variety

"Intimate and unflinching."
Katey Rich, Vanity Fair

"Absorbing and relevant. A timely doc about Hollywood, hyper-sexualization, and a star's resilience."
Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter

"Insightful, well-crafted, and inspirational."
Richard Roeper, The Chicago Sun-Times

"Should be mandatory viewing for parents — or anyone — before they put a kid on camera."
Jessica Grose, The New York Times

"Pretty Baby isn’t always pretty in chronicling everything that Shields endured, but in terms of placing a spotlight on the media excesses that surrounded and defined her rise to fame, it is, with the benefit of hindsight, pretty amazing indeed."
Brian Lowry, CNN

"Thoughtful and moving. At its heart, Pretty Baby is the story of the terrible toll that sexual and commercial objectification takes on women. Of how relentlessly young girls — especially those born fitting into our idea of beauty — can be seized upon, monetized, objectified and ground down. Of how female sexuality so easily turns into a transactional commodity. Ms. Shields's story is triumphant and moving."
Rhonda Garelick, The New York Times

"The ultimately affirming story of a woman who took back her life."
Candice Frederick, The Huffington Post

"Examines not just Shields’s star persona, but the obsessive and damaging nature of stardom itself."
Lauren Humpries-Brooks, Citizen Dame

"Honest and incisive, Pretty Baby critiques a toxic culture that perpetuates misogyny and is complicit in the sexualization and objectification of young girls."
Carla Renatta, The Curvy Film Critic

"Makes it clear how much the young Shields was let down by an industry that too often saw her as a commodity instead of a human being."
Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com

"A thoughtful examination of the way society objectifies and sexualizes girls and young women."
Lauren Coates, Culturess