Write an ordered list of reviews about "the diary of a teenage girl".
1. It's work, but it's ultimately rewarding work. It tackles some truths that other movies wouldn't touch, not even with a stick and thick gloves.
2. For an industry that can barely manage to put women in leading roles, The Diary of a Teenage Girl casts a sexually brash 15-year-old as antihero, and succeeds.
3. It dares to show the heroine as something more complicated than a victim. As a result the movie lands somewhere outside the battle lines of contemporary gender politics, which may be why it feels true.
4. Heller's empathy and, let's be honest, her denial of prurience appears to free Powley from embarrassment. She's seizing this part, not shrinking from it.
5. Expect to feel uncomfortable watching Diary of a Teenage Girl, which is precisely the point of this finely etched debut feature by writer/director Marielle Heller.
6. There is a kind of achievement in depicting a sexual relationship between an adult man and his girlfriend's daughter in a way that makes it feel neither predatory nor twisted... Whether it is a thing worth achieving is another question.
7. Well-acted, well-written, well-considered, and very difficult to watch, this is a movie that challenges our expectations and makes us squirm in our seats, as though we're reading someone else's diary, when we know we shouldn't.
8. The Diary of a Teenage Girl is undeniably bold in its candor, but it leaves us feeling empty.
9. This marks an amazingly auspicious debut for Heller, who adapts Gloeckner's novel with uncompromising and unsettling power, despite its slight incursion into a Hollywoodized upbeat ending.
10. Heller's debut directorial effort is incisive and universal, despite its very specific and detailed setting.