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Sonequa Martin, left, and Louisa Krause in Emily Abt’s film.
On a High School Lacrosse Team, Opposites Attract and Attack
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: February 26, 2010
If “Toe to Toe” were a young-adult novel, it would be embraced and argued about in classrooms and eagerly read by thoughtful teenage girls. The film’s observations about race, class and friendship are clear and accessible without being overly didactic, and its sometimes harsh candor about female sexuality would not be unfamiliar to devotees of contemporary adolescent literature. But because it is a movie — the first nondocumentary feature film by the writer and director Emily Abt — “Toe to Toe” is likely to languish in art-house limbo, far from the eyes of its ideal audience. More

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