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."



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



Paper Towns(2015)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 67

After an all night adventure, Quentin's life-long crush, Margo, disappears, leaving behind clues that Quentin and his friends follow on the journey of a lifetime.



Labor Day(2013)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.



The Giver(2014)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 65

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.



The To Do List(2013)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Klark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting campus in the fall.



Laggies(2014)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 68

In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes, then, taking an opportunity to escape for a week, hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year-old Annika, who lives with her world-weary single dad.



The DUFF(2015)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out that she has been labeled the DUFF - Designated Ugly Fat Friend - by her prettier, more popular counterparts.



You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger(2010)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Sally's parents' marriage breaks up when her father undergoes a mid-life crisis and impulsively weds a prostitute. Meanwhile, Sally's own marriage also begins to disintegrate.



Five Feet Apart(2019)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A pair of teenagers with cystic fibrosis meet in a hospital and fall in love, though their disease means they must avoid close physical contact.



Bachelorette(2012)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.



Admission(2013)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.




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