Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

room102 I expected a lot more from Jason Reitman, but his movies are getting weaker every time. The movie is not terrible. It's just that it's not very good either. It's not very funny and the extremely predictable plot can't hold an entire film, not even mere 90 minutes. It might have worked better as a short.Charlize Theron, a very talented actress and an extremely beautiful woman, is OK in her role, nothing more. She doesn't deserve to be nominated for an award, but it's not her fault, it's the material that doesn't give her much to work with.

phoenix 2 A writer of a young adult book series comes back to her old town to find her old boyfriend. I really didn't get this film. First I though it was about a woman with depression. Then that Mavis was just stuck to her past as a popular girl. In the end, the movie left me with mixed feelings. Did Mavis grow up? Was she really depressed? And if so, did she get help? The trigger for her break down is her ex boyfriend's newborn baby. Mavis is walking around with the photo of the baby before she rushes back convinced that she and him are meant to be together. There are some sparks of depth, like when Mavis admits that she is an alcoholic or when she starts pulling off her own hair, but it never gets deep enough. Her book heroin is Mavis herself, that's obvious enough, but who was really Mavis? And what was the point of this film? So 2 out of 10 only because of the performances.

Ben Parker Mavis (Charlize Theron) is a successful author of young adult novels who hears her old high school squeeze is happily married with a baby, so she decides she wants to get him back.Its a riff on My Best Friend's Wedding, a riff on fame and the classic fish out of water story, but I love it. I've never met anyone else who likes it. First of all, I love that the opening credits take place inside a cassette tape player. I find Mavis to be unlikeable but fascinating to watch. She is an excellent portrait, well written by Diablo Cody, well crafted by Charlize Theron and Jason Reitman. She's a good example of an unreliable narrator. We don't get them in movies too often. Basically, she'll tell you things, and you shouldn't necessarily listen to her. The things she's saying are not what the filmmakers are saying. I like it. 8/10

Mr-Fusion "Young Adult" is the sort of movie that I desperately wished for a happy ending, some kind of closure to end things on an up note. Charlize Theron has undeniable acting chops and does wonders with the character, but I just wanted to wring her neck at every turn - which makes it a tough 85 minutes to trudge through when you hate the main character. It's not even like the material hit too close to him. I just can't abide hateful people like Mavis Gary. And then it just ends. She hears what she wants to hear and then decides to head home. That's it.The silver lining here is Patton Oswalt, whose tragic character acts as Theron's conscience and he's easily the film's winning feature.But I won't be coming back to this. It's too uncomfortable with no reward.4/10