Bel Powley as Minnie Goetze in "The Diary of a Teenage Girl." Bel Powley as Minnie Goetze ... takes viewers along as she reports her observations of growing up in 1970s San Francisco.

“It was not, to say the least, a typical situation or easy to make sense of,” says Gloeckner of growing up here ... @sfchronicle.com The Diary of a Teenage Girl (R) opens Friday, Aug. 14 ...

The escapades grow darker, too ... Female sexuality has typically been so constrained by the movies that “Diary of a Teenage Girl” feels almost radical in its portrait of empowering promiscuity.

confused and unapologetically horny brain of a girl named Minnie Goetze. “Diary” is a vivid and often shocking story of growing up female in 1976 San Francisco, told with tenderness and humor ...

“Growing up, all I would see in movies was ... Starring Alexander Skarsgard and Kristen Wiig, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is 23-year-old British actress Powley’s first major leading role ...

Writer/director Marielle Heller, in her captivating debut film “The Diary of a Teenage Girl,” hits exactly the right tone for a complicated balancing act, and for a film that could very easily ...

"The Diary of a Teenage Girl" is a movie about young women ... timer Marielle Heller - is the tale of Minnie, a 15-year-old growing up in late-'70s, everything-is-permitted San Francisco.

“The Diary of a Teenage Girl” is just that – a coming-of-age story that ... She records a diary on cassette tapes – her growing collection fills a shoebox – and I quickly grew to trust her voice.