Attack of the Teenagers

"...DVD player. Good thing I can speak Myspace fluently: Teenagers have taken over my house. The idea seemed good..."

Sept. 18, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Teenagers Deserve Consideration

"...I realize they have a deaf ear to unfortunate teenagers caught up in our sex-offender laws. No one wants..."

March 18, 2005 Postmarks

Pride

Based on the true story of Jim Ellis, who created a nationally respected swimming program from an abandoned community center, Pride is a by-the-book sports film.

"...a greatest-hits collection of soul music fills the airwaves, teenagers play basketball outside a run-down rec center in the..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

West Beirut

"...challenge destined to stymie even the most stabile of teenagers. Thus Ziad Doueiri's 1998 film, West Beirut, comes as..."

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Divergent

Yet another dystopic YA book series gets translated to film – and one that resembles thebestseller: engrossing yet flimsy.

"...farming, and Candor supplies the judicators. At age 16, teenagers take a test to determine their faction aptitude, though..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Only the Young

This gorgeously shot documentary impression of three teenagers in Santa Clarita, California, effectively captures the sensation of youth on the verge.

"...and no interviewee asking leading questions, but all three teenagers confide to the camera; their unselfconscious and nonperformative ease..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gretel & Hansel

The woods are dark and deep, but far from lovely ...

"...retelling of the Brothers Grimm story. Unapologetically targeted to teenagers (Perkins had to fight to secure a PG-13 rating)..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Ma

Octavia Spencer subverts expectations and racist tropes in this fun horror

"...host their parties in her basement. Soon, however, the teenagers discover a darker and more obsessive side to their..."

May 31, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Hell Fest

Murder at the amusement park, but this time it's horror themed

"...film’s bread and butter. It is a succession of teenagers navigating an elaborate amusement park of what amounts to..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Minding the Gap

Sundance-lauded Hulu skateboarder doc surpasses Thrasher equation

"...has been filming his skater friends since they were teenagers in Rockford, Ill., an area pretty hard hit by..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Darkest Minds

Earth's last children hunted by their parents

"...best to kill the subgenre with The Darkest Minds. Teenagers deserve a better caliber of dystopia...."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Beach Rats

A moody take on the Jersey Shore

"...this year at Sundance, has a special feeling for teenagers’ emergent sexuality. Her previous film, It Felt Like Love..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Oasis: Supersonic

Britpop band looks back in anger

"...trove of footage of the Gallaghers as children and teenagers, dutifully interviewed their aged mother, and chatted up rhythm..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Final Girls

Smart homage to the cheesy campsite horror films of the Eighties

"...Eighties. You know the formula: A slew of horny teenagers in a wooded setting is menaced by a machete-wielding..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

YA dystopia franchise continues in this sub-par sequel

"...first film’s maze, through which a group of memory-wiped teenagers scurried like lab rats, sniffing the air for an..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Fault in Our Stars

The film does justice to the popular novel in this judicious teen tearjerker.

"...Yes, teenagers are prone to hyperbole, but when 16-year-old Hazel (Woodley)..."

June 6, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Family

The family that slays together, stays together – even in witness protection.

"...four – Dad (De Niro), Mom (Pfeiffer), and two teenagers (Agron and D’Leo) – who refuse to blend inconspicuously..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Kings of Summer

This Sundance favorite is a perfect yet offbeat summer movie about teens who ditch their families and try to live like men in a ground-level treehouse in the woods.

"...the quirky coming-of-age dramedy The Kings of Summer, three teenagers decide to free themselves from the shackles of adolescence..."

June 7, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

In the House

A pleasurably heady thriller from French auteur François Ozon.

"...a failed novelist teaching Flaubert to bored, barely literate teenagers – “barbarians,” as he dismisses them to his sympathetic..."

May 17, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Beautiful Creatures

She's a witch, he's a mortal, and they both read Charles Bukowski: Some teens will never make it to heaven.

"...story about kids who just want to be normal teenagers in love. There’s also the film’s strong broadsides against..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Red Dawn

This remake's inspiration comes more from Call of Duty and other first-person-shooter games, rather than the 1984 original.

"...Red Dawn, John Milius’ 1984 cult classic about Midwestern teenagers who defiantly defend themselves and their homeland against Russian..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Footloose

Finally, a remake that’s not a just a mindless retread.

"...classic of cinema, although its heartfelt story about stifled teenagers, small-town myopia, standing up for your beliefs, and the..."

Oct. 14, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Super 8

This throwback to the monster movies of the Seventies evokes the early work of Steven Spielberg.

"...Super 8’s core protagonists are a group of late-tweeners/early teenagers, which also fits into the Amblin template, these particular..."

June 10, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

An Education

Everything about Scherfig’s coming-of-age story about a girl in the London suburb of Twickenham in 1961 is spot-on.

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Love You, Beth Cooper

Hayden Panetierre stars in this coming-of-age comedy about a high school valedictorian who proclaims his love for the school's hottest cheerleader during his graduation speech.

"...but it didn't last.) Ultimately, and like many depressed teenagers, Beth Cooper lives, loves, and dies by its own..."

July 17, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Taken

Call it the last cinematic gasp of the Bush era.

"...a U2 concert (which should be a lesson to teenagers everywhere: Be careful which bands you fall in love..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Rocket Science

On the surface, Rocket Science is yet another quirky high school movie, but its story of a stutterer who's enticed into joining the debate team is special in its own way.

"...and a healthy dose of Thumbsucker. But, like quirky teenagers themselves, quirky teenage movies have their own peculiar distinctions...."

Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Architect

This well-meaning social drama about the intersecting lives of a dysfunctional, upper-middle-class family in suburbia and the residents of a deteriorating public-housing project is flimsy at best.

"...and the seemingly random sexual confusion experienced by three teenagers. While these narrative threads might be compelling if more..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Quinceañera

Don't confuse this Sundance charmer with My Big Fat Mexican Debut, for its farcical scenes of high hair and waltzes form a genial, light-comic prism for watching race, age, class, and sexuality collide in one of America's most economically and ethnically complex cities.

"...taboo first loves, and the dance of separation between teenagers and their traditionalist parents. Parents might balk at some..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Thumbsucker

The plot realistically mimics a teenager’s adriftness and tendency toward hairpin-turn mood shifts as it bounds from the wonderfully affecting to the decidedly idiosyncratic to the occasionally absurd.

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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