Lauren Hadaway has made a sports movie, a queer romance, a thriller, and, ultimately, a character study; The film communicates more with her performance than a lesser film could with monologues of exposition
in Lauren Hadaway's tense, often electrifying feature debut...Isabelle Furhman, steadily building Alex from the inside out; offering a fully realized performance in a story all about the pain of realizing how much further you have to go
an overachieving mindset presented through the lens of a psychological thriller yields propulsively intense results and a fiery, obsessive performance from Isabelle Fuhrman in writer and director Lauren Hadaway's narrative feature debut, "The Novice"
a darkly thrilling debut; It's a horrific tale of a young woman hurtling directly toward failure and welcoming the pain that comes with it; Dark, unnerving and thrilling, The Novice is poised to become a genre-breaking success
by Robert Kojder [Flickering Myth ]
