Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

oliviaberrecloth7 I read the book before it was a movie. I liked it at the time and I also liked John Green. But now, I think John Green is such an overrated author. I was excited for the movie, the book was exciting with a highly disappointing ending. Well, the movie has the number one spot as the worst movie I've ever seen. It wouldn't have been hard to follow the book, but they even decided to change some things, make it worse and add useless scenes that didn't even need to be there. The worst of all was the scene where they sang the Pokémon theme. It was quite an insult to the TV show which will always be one of my favourites, first season only. It was so, so cringey I had to shut my eyes, look away and apologise to myself for spending even a minute watching this movie. I think the only good thing about this movie is that the casting was pretty good, however, Cara cannot act at all in my opinion so it was hard to watch, or even try to get lost in the story when you're constantly reminded that it's acting and that it's horrible.

agloverx-82034 I think a rating of 7 is slightly clutching at straws however I did enjoy the film so I want to reflect that. I think that it helps that I've read the book enough times for me to have the complete story in my head, things that didn't seem significant to the story until they were missing... I saw this film with friends who hadn't read the book and they didn't enjoy the film as much as me. For me, reading the book first meant that the film was like adding extra bonus content.. being able to put images in my head although I do think some may watch it and just notice that it wasn't as good in comparison. I think it's worth a watch if this is your genre of film and if you're a reader.. John Green is a fantastic author!

Schlichte Toven I didn't really want to write a review - I wanted to write a comment on the discussion boards, but they're gone, so here we are.I watched this on Canadian Netflix because the availability of non-B movies on that site is not great. I hadn't read the book, because I know it's one of those coming-of-age stories I hate. When I saw the scene in which one of the guys looks up the bio of that folk singer on his phone, I was sure I knew where the movie was going - the article on the folk singer had said he'd died of Huntington's, which I knew was a genetic condition that often appears in the person's 30s and inevitably results in a slow and terrible death. So I thought, oh, that's why Margo is so reckless and apt to give advice about how other people should be living their lives, she knows she has this condition and is going to have a short time to live. So the whole time, I was expecting Q to search and search for her only to find that she'd lived it up madly and then killed herself to prevent slow deterioration, or that Q would never find her but would learn years later that at the onset of symptoms she'd jumped off a mountainside or something. She seemed like the type of person who would do that. And then Q, instead of becoming an oncologist, would become a researcher in neurological diseases and this would be the legacy she left him.Instead, she turned out to be an ordinary brat who ran away in order to "find" herself, not having graduated high school. Boring. Which leads me to my second point of irritation with this movie, which is that, either the author has completely forgotten what it was like to be 17, or he was also a spoiled brat. These teens all have cars, no jobs, unlimited cash, and their parents are perfectly fine with them ditching school without notice and driving across the country. They all have way more independence and disposable income than seems likely. Margo is living by herself in some hick town. What happens after the money runs out and all her former friends have finished high school, and she doesn't have a degree and can't get a job? I hate the rosy picture of the three friends heading their separate ways to new adventures at the end of the movie. What would the average life course of real people be? Yes, some would become oncologists and spend 80 hours a week working and rarely get to see their fancy houses, some would become journalists for CNN and travel the world, but most will be ordinary and get married, get an uninteresting job to pay the bills, and spend their weekends trying to get their squealing infants to stop crying long enough to pick up diapers at Walmart. And then get divorced. I'm just being realistic here.The movie has a typical upper-middle-class American "follow your muse, discover your true self" underlying message that is very unoriginal and very uninspiring.

Eddie Cantillo Paper Towns(2015) Starring: Cara Delevingne, Nat Wolff, Halston Sage, Austin Abrams, Justice Smith, Meg Crosbie, Caitlin Carver, Cara Buono, Griffin Freeman, RJ Shearer, Josiah Cerio, Jim Coleman, Sophia Grillo, Bailey Nemirow, Susan Macke Miller, Jay Duplass, Drew Matthews, Hannah Alligood, Robert Crayton, and Tom Hillmann Directed By: Jake Schreier Review GET LOST. GET FOUND. This movie was something I wanted to see, I like John Green's work on YA novels, cause his usually doesn't feel like a rip-off of Battle Royale. He even writes love stories that more ingenious and heartfelt then Nicholas Sparks, whose work I use to be quite fond of(The Notebook, Safe Haven, A walk to Remember, The Lucky One) but aside from those four I don't much like his work anymore. Granted Paper Towns isn't a love story so much but then this most I would say most confusing coming age of story or maybe I just need to watch it again, and that's whats great about it. Some people might get the movie and understand what it's about first thing and if you're one of those people then great hope you at least enjoyed this movie. To me I went in knowing that it indeed was a coming of age story(I believe most people hate those) but I don't know this movie at the very least didn't make feel anything other than confused. I'm giving Paper Towns a three out of five.