Cookie Queens Exposes the Sweet Underbelly of Girl Scout Season
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IndieWire's Sundance review of Cookie Queens follows four diverse Girl Scouts during cookie season, using slick visuals and a jaunty score to reveal how the six-week sale doubles as a capitalist machine, spotlighting family support, money pressures, and the girls’ negotiation of their own identities and ambitions, with Olive at the center as she questions the price of being the top seller.
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