The Wrong Girls review
By Joel Humphries · Watched 08.19.26
★½ 1.5 / 5
Spoiler-free review
The most remarkable thing about The Wrong Girls is how completely it evaporated from my memory within four days. Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat apparently play aimless women whose accidental encounter with an experimental drug pulls them into telepathy, mistaken identities and a conspiracy, but even rereading the premise barely revived the experience. I remember the two of them attempting stoner-buddy-comedy energy, fighting each other and various pursuers, and almost nothing else. I was awake, which somehow makes the absence of any lasting impression worse. A movie this recent should leave me with more than proof that I physically attended it.
Full review — contains spoilers
I saw The Wrong Girls. I know I saw The Wrong Girls. I remember physically going to the theater to see The Wrong Girls. Beyond that, I've got bupkis.
Apparently Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat play two aimless women who accidentally ingest an experimental drug, develop telepathic abilities and end up being chased by people who want the same substance. Reading that description back now, I'm like, "Oh yeah. I guess that happened."
I vaguely remembered somebody getting mistaken for somebody else's girlfriend and drugs being involved and the two women getting dragged into increasingly ridiculous shit together. That is apparently not even really the plot. That's how little impression this made on me.
Usually when I don't remember a movie, I at least remember whether I slept through it. I don't remember having a good nap during this one, so apparently I was awake. I couldn't tell you what I was awake for.
Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat are doing a stoner-buddy-comedy thing. They fight each other, they fight everybody else, they stumble through whatever conspiracy they're trapped in, and eventually the movie ends. I saw this on the 19th. This isn't something I saw six years ago. It was four days ago.
Zero impression.
I'm sorry to everybody involved. Maybe if I had reviewed it that night, I would have had something intelligent to say. I didn't. Two stars. I'm out.