Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) is Kelly Fremon Craig's coming-of-age dramedy, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Eleven-year-old Margaret moves with her parents from New York to a quiet New Jersey suburb and lands right at the edge of growing up, where the questions far outnumber the answers.

Abby Ryder Fortson plays Margaret, a girl who talks to God directly, no middleman required. Her mother is Christian, her father Jewish, and she belongs to neither yet — sorting out her own faith, waiting for her body to change, and trying to crack the secret codes of her new friends. Rachel McAdams plays her mom, gentle and just as unsure as her daughter. Kathy Bates is the grandmother who treats Margaret as the center of the universe, with Benny Safdie as her father.

This adapts Judy Blume's beloved 1970 novel, a book pulled from library shelves for decades over its frankness. The film is warm and awkward in exactly the right places, never syrupy. It works for anyone who grew up on the book, for parents of tweens, and for anyone who remembers what twelve felt like. Stream Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) online on iFILM.