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Cookie Queens Exposes the Sweet Underbelly of Girl Scout Season

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Source: IndieWire
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.

Topics:entertainmentfilm#cookie-queens#criticism#documentary#film#girl-scouts#sundance-2026
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  1. ‘Cookie Queens’ Review: A Slick and Skeptical Documentary Explores the Cutthroat World of Girl Scout Cookie Season  IndieWire
  2. Sundance 2026 Filmmaker Interview: Meet Cookie Queens Director Alysa Nahmias  saltlakemagazine.com
  3. Honey on a Razor’s Edge: Alysa Nahmias on Girl Scout Capitalism in ‘Cookie Queens’  International Documentary Association
  4. Cookie Queens Follows Four Girl Scouts with Thin Mints and Thick Skins  slugmag.com
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