{"id":112506,"date":"2026-01-26T06:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112506\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T06:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:16:25","slug":"cookie-queens-review-girl-scouts-hit-the-streets-to-sell-the-american-dream-via-baked-goods-in-irresistible-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112506\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cookie Queens\u2019 Review: Girl Scouts Hit the Streets to Sell the American Dream Via Baked Goods in Irresistible Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"

At one point in Cookie Queens<\/a>, a highly engaging documentary about four Girl Scouts selling cookies, the film\u2019s smallest moppet, five-year-old Ara E.<\/a>, meets a prospective client who \u2014 given his diabetes \u2014 wonders if he should be buying cookies at all. Ara, who has type-1 diabetes herself, empathizes enthusiastically and later bakes some sugar-free treats for the two of them. (Although she still charges the customer, having clearly learned the capitalist lesson of the cookie-charitable-industrial complex.) It\u2019s an adorable moment, but one that might just draw attention to the fact that if this film were itself a baked good, Ara would need to be careful because one bite could cause hyperglycemia or even diabetic ketoacidosis. It\u2019s just that sweet.<\/p>\n

Not that viewers are likely to complain, judging by the reportedly long ovation that greeted the film after its first Sundance screening. Directed by Alysa Nahmias<\/a> (who won an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At one point in Cookie Queens, a highly engaging documentary about four Girl Scouts selling cookies, the film\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2633,2634,1214,2635,2555,2558,158,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,2559,2556,1869],"class_list":{"0":"post-112506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-films","13":"tag-hollywood","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-queens","20":"tag-queens-headlines","21":"tag-queens-news","22":"tag-stars","23":"tag-television","24":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}