Tag: Coming of Age

I’ve long contended that the titular hero of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) isn’t a character so much as an ideal, a symbol of…

In light of bullying becoming the hot topic of the day, Hollywood has assaulted us in recent years with a slew of coming-of-age fairy…

Sometimes it helps not to know too much about a production before reviewing it. Take, for example, Tom Bezucha’s Monte Carlo, which tells of…

This review does not discuss the plot of Super 8. Writer-director J.J. Abrams and the Paramount marketing team have gone through such lengths to…

If urban Canadian youth were made into a video game, it would look something like Scott Pilgrim vs the World. Adapted from the comic…

Though it misses greatness by a few heavy-handed instances, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a rarity among teen movies: it features young…