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: 80

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.



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.



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.



The Diary of a Teenage Girl(2015)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 85

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



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



Clueless(1995)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

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



13 Going on 30(2004)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A girl makes a wish on her thirteenth birthday, and wakes up the next day as a thirty-year-old woman.




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