Review: 'Girls State'

The follow-up companion film to 'Boys State' is naturally more interesting and mostly stands on its own as a more engaging and dramatically entertaining documentary.

In 2020, Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine released Boys State, a documentary about the American Legion’s summer leadership and citizenship programs for male high school students. Now it’s time to showcase Girls State, a similar program that was founded the same year as Boys State but hasn’t produced as many notable alumni (the handful of women politicians …