The Spectacular Now(2013)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."



About a Boy(2002)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A cynical, immature young man is taught how to act like a grown-up by a little boy.



Easy A(2010)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.



The Fault in Our Stars(2014)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Two teenage cancer patients begin a life-affirming journey to visit a reclusive author in Amsterdam.



Notes on a Scandal(2006)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.



The Perks of Being a Wallflower(2012)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world.



Never Let Me Go(2010)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 76

The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.



Election(1999)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.



The Diary of a Teenage Girl(2015)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.



Something's Gotta Give(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.



Twilight(2008)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.



American Honey(2016)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.



Pitch Perfect(2012)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Beca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school's all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition.



The Virgin Suicides(1999)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid-1970s.



Anna Karenina(2012)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.



Billy Elliot(2000)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.



Clueless(1995)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A rich high school student tries to boost a new pupil's popularity, but reckons without affairs of the heart getting in the way.



Manhattan(1979)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.



The Good Girl(2002)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.



It's Kind of a Funny Story(2010)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.




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