Young Actress Reviews exists to inform you about young actresses whose careers you should keep your eye on. While there are many sites on the Internet that feature young talent in film, our site is focused only on those movies and actresses we feel are among the very best, and we aim to provide original content with a fresh perspective.

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Each movie is given two scores: movie score, and actress score. The movie score rates how much we liked the movie as a whole, whereas the actress score rates the young actress herself. A movie with a high actress score but a low movie score means that the actress was likely the only worthwhile aspect of the movie. The following tables loosely explain our scoring criteria:

Obviously the scores we assign a movie reflect our personal opinions. You shouldn't avoid a movie because we (or others) give it a low score, but rather you should decide for yourself. The main purpose of our scoring system is to tell you which films we think are worth seeing before others.

The Screen Time field tells how many minutes of the movie the actress is seen on the screen. That doesn't indicate how important the character is, since in some movies a central character might be seen very rarely.

Most likely the reason is simply lack of time. The process of creating a full review that lives up to this site's standards takes a significant amount of time. It's also possible we haven't yet seen or even heard of the movie. The following are movies we have seen or know to be worthwhile, and will get at least a mini review as soon as we get around to (re)watching them:

Do let us know if there's a movie you think we ought to review.

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