How Cranky Granny's Sweet Rolls Went From a Teenager's Dream to a Must-Stop Destination

Sianni Dean wants to see her cinnamon rolls across the country

Jan. 28, 2022 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Higher Ground

Oscar-winning actress Vera Farmiga makes her debut as a director with this film in which she also stars as a woman who struggles with religious faith.

"...played as an adult by Vera Farmiga, as a teenager by Farmiga’s siter Taissa, and as a child by..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

World's Greatest Dad

Bobcat Goldthwait directs Robin Williams in this comedy that harpoons pious sentimentality.

"...valorizing sentimentality we attach to the suicide of a teenager. Goldthwait succeeds in skewering his targets but never really..."

Sept. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Freaky Friday

"...they really seem to be trading places. As the teenager in an almost-middle-aged woman’s body, Curtis plays the part..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Kid Who Would Be King

The Arthurian myth retold as an entertaining allegory for the hope of youth

"...yes, it's that family of Serkis) is a normal teenager with normal teenager problems. He sleeps too late, keeps..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Eighth Grade

Modern middle school life has never been captured better

"...videos deceptively project an image of an emotionally assured teenager that’s in heartbreaking contrast to the anguished Kayla in..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Teenage

Beguiling and maddening in its approach, this odd doc looks at the relatively recent invention of the teenager.

"...is an artistic consideration of the conceptualization of the teenager – as a distinct period in life, and as..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Pariah

Pariah tells the specific but universal story of a black teenage girl who is a virginal lesbian, budding writer, and nonconformist.

"...universal with its emotionally engaging story about a Brooklyn teenager who struggles to find a place to fit in..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gigli

"...Gigli (Affleck) is hired to kidnap a mentally retarded teenager named Brian (Bartha) in order to persuade Brian’s federal..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Teen Spirit

Pop fable never feels like a smash hit

"...runs like a perfume ad) of a quiet, working-class teenager who lives on the Isle of Wight with her..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Five Feet Apart

Meet cute on the teen ICU takes a turn for the corny

"...idea of the day-to-day reality of a terminally ill teenager, one measured by the daily ingestion of multiple medications..."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Chef Flynn

New York's young culinary genius is an enfant adorable

"...in this charming little documentary about an amazing, freckle-faced teenager with a discerning palate for fine food. At age..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Luv Doc: Buttering Your Muffin

Never discount the sexual voraciousness of a pimply-faced teenager

"...a cardboard sign is making more than the perky teenager wearing the Britney Spears headset mic in the Chick-fil-A..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Whose Streets?

A you-are-there portrait of the tragedy in Ferguson

"...man, Michael Brown, several times on Canfield Drive. The teenager’s lifeless body lay in the middle of the street..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

American Pastoral

Philip Roth's beloved book hits the screen

"...of a radicalization that will upend their lives once teenager Merry (Fanning) vows to “bring the war home” by..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Moonlight

There's magic in this Moonlight

"...the story of a sensitive boy, then a confused teenager, and finally a hardened young man named Chiron, who..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Max Steel

A teen and an alien join forces in this superhero movie

"...time. And another superhero enters the game as a teenager and his alien companion come together to fight mysterious..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program B

Be the most knowledgeable voter at your Oscar party

"...the Lines," we meet the 16-year-old Chau, a Vietnamese teenager disabled due to the effects of Agent Orange. Placed..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Programs A & B

"...Lines," we meet the 16-year-old Chau – a Vietnamese teenager disabled due to the effects of Agent Orange –..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

He Named Me Malala

Doc about the famous champion of girls' eduction, Malala Yousafzai

"...history and offers little insight into the now 18-year-old teenager that exists behind the icon. Uplift is the film’s..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Prince

Impoverished Dutch teen is lured by promises of wealth

"...moments. But when things get darker for this troubled teenager, he gravitates toward the unwise direction of Kalpa (Tratlehner),..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mommy

Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan creates a volatile drama about a violently hyperactive teen, his strong-willed mother, and the nice woman who lives across the street.

"...the emotionalism of the characters. Undeniably, living with a teenager can be a hard row to hoe; living with..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

If I Stay

A mixture of hollow heartache and honest feelings mark this teen drama that stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a cello prodigy caught in medical limbo between life and death.

"...To your average teenager, everyday trials can take on the grandeur of world-ending..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Documentaries, Program A

Three remarkable stories of people's reaction to oppression.

"...their boots who viciously attacked Matthew Boger, a homeless teenager who was thrown out of his house for being..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Black Nativity

Kasi Lemmons’ adaptation of this Langston Hughes work is a muddled church-time reverie.

"...Hughes’ libretto onto an original story about a troubled teenager named (in a nod to the poet and playwright)..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Epic

This imaginative 3-D animated fantasy takes place in a forest world.

"...animated fantasy begins with Mary Katherine (Seyfried), a young teenager, arriving to visit her eccentric, almost-mad scientist father (Sudeikis)..."

May 24, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Call

Halle Berry plays a 911 phone operator who takes a call in which everything's on the line.

"...save Casey (Little Miss Sunshine’s Abigail Breslin), a kidnapped teenager trapped in the trunk of a Toyota, calling on..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Fun Size

Broad-stroked but often funny, this is a teen tale of a Halloween night that doesn't go according to plan.

"...accommodate the concerns of a middle-aged single mom, a teenager, and a larcenous little boy. The one-size-fits-all mentality –..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

We Need To Talk About Kevin

Tilda Swinton stars as the mother of a teen rampage killer who has a complicated relationship with her son.

"...Duer, as an adolescent by Newell, and as a teenager by Miller). From the start it's an almost Omen-esque..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fright Night

The new Fright Night isn't a prick on the neck of the 1985 original, but what it does it does well.

"...death go head-to-head here, both temporarily sidelined by every teenager's least favorite societal villain: that damned chastity. But, as..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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